Re:Crab Claw (was Geniuses are among us)

Ron Force (rforce@uidaho.edu)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:39:39 -0800


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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The November 1998 latitude 38 has a discussion of the modern crab claw
(horizontal tacking) rig. The general thrust of the article was that it
handled about like a mainsail-only bermuda rig--doesn't point as well,
but is fairly powerful upwind. Downwind, it loses to a
spinnaker-equipped sloop-- mostly because of the limited sail area.
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