Re: first launch / no go upwind / what's wrong?

Magico1@aol.com
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 22:23:15 EDT

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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Your Potter is the same model as mine and my Potter can go 5 knots upwind.
There are some secrets to get this kind of performance out of a P. 14Buy a
new mark 2 mainsail, they are great. then rake your mast back about 2 inches
on the forestay.( this only applies to a Mark 1 Potter) Put about 20 pounds
of lead in the forepeak, unbolt your 10 H.P. motor and drop it overboard.
Replace it with a 30 pound or less model, and sit your crew foreward. that
thing in the back of the boat is a lazarette,it's for storage only.It's NOT a
seat. Pull in your main just to the inside corner of the transom, leave about
1.5 inches of belly in the jib. Then let us know how she sails. Jerry
B. p.14 # 564 Breezy

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