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I race against an almost identical boat to mine. The other boat is 2 feet shorter and carries a larger jib. Generally they perform simular to each other. However, the other boat can go upwind much better than mine.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to the cause, and how I might overcome this charteristic?
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Aimee
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It's a delicate balance between two things: the boats ability to point closer to the wind and to maintain forward speed as the wind picks up-- that detemines how it performs well upwind. If you try to pinch too high, that airfoil sail shape starts to invert. If you foot too much, you go faster but give away too much angular distance towards your destination.
My suggestion is to find that balance and optimize it.
Hope that helps.
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