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> We had fun on those "windless" downwind runs. There was
> enough apparent wind to hold the sails up so we didn't have
> to work at it. And while we weren't sailing really fast, it
> was fast enough to be fun.
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OOPS. I meant to say "we had fun on those windless downSTREAM runs." It wasn't downwind; it was downstream.
We were tacking upwind - zig-zagging back and forth across the wide river in a very "reachy" close reach.
Best,
Judy