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by pairajacks
July 30th, 2017, 5:25 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Controlling twist on Square Top sail
Replies: 5
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Re: Controlling twist on Square Top sail

It's a Nacra 5.2 with a Slosail radial mylar sail. It's a pretty straight cut, especially when compared with the original dacron sail. The original sail luff was very curved by comparison. The mast is not prebent. The Nacra 52 does have diamond wires, and from the look of the original sail, flatteni...
by pairajacks
July 14th, 2017, 11:31 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Controlling twist on Square Top sail
Replies: 5
Views: 6915

Controlling twist on Square Top sail

I'm loving the new square top sail on my Nacra 5.2 but hardly beating Prindles across the finish line. I don't want to even look at corrected time. Especially on the downwind leg, I can't seem to induce enough twist to get the upper telltales to stream back. The main downhaul was pretty tight. What ...