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Downwind Speed

6th July 2005

StevenRolland

6th July 2005 at 8:42 AM

It seems that we aren’t too bad going into the wind and our close reaching has improved, but we seem to lack speed downwind. There is another Sonata in our otherwise mixed fleet, and he is significantly faster off the wind, although we can often be a bit quicker going into it.

Does anyone have any advice they don’t mind sharing? I’m not sure my main trim is brilliant, so that could be a starting point but any general advice would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Steven.

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