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You're very welcome!

Glad to hear we could be helpful!’

Thanks, I’m glad you did too! ☺️

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Indeed. We have our headstay tension set with the backstay half set. This lets me out a little extra tension if the air got colder, and ease it completely when we are anchored or going downwind.

Thanks! My goal is to make these topics easier to understand because sometimes I feel like the ones explaining it don’t fully understand it and therefore make it too complicated for you to come up with a question 🤪 Glad they are helpful to you; Sailing is a great dream to make reality ⛵️

The main advantage is simply more leverage from the backstay to make the headstay tighter for going upwind. If the mast wasn’t bendy, then the whole thing would come back maybe less than an inch and that would make the headstay tighter as well. That’s pretty sweet that you could sail so well without the headsail. Only having one sail to work is always easier than dealing with two sails!

That’s a great point about how they wear out faster!

Life on an island , you beat me by 9 minutes

@@CaptMarkSVAlcina This guy is setting a standard that is hard for us to follow. I asked if he could make a video about this topic yesterday (Norway time) , I got a answer back "soon" he wasn't joking.

Life on an island , that is why he called himself the Rigging Doctor because he delivers just like a Doctor delivery baby’s, when ask he does. And by the way I thought you lifted in New Zealand, now I see you life in Norway.

@@CaptMarkSVAlcina Norwegian born and raised. I don't know if that is a good thing or not but that's what I've got so I guess I'll say it with pride and make the most of it! So where in the world do you feel at home?

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This is why we have Patreon, they get early access to all these kinds of videos 😉 I just feel that this kind of knowledge helps people and shouldn’t be trapped behind a paywall 😎

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That might be really hard to find. I would suggest copying a similar setup from a different but similar sized boat. You want to base your comparison on the mainsail area and if the mainsheet is in the middle or the end of the boom. Find one that’s similar and replicate it on your boat.

Yeah, those masts are so well supported, they won’t budge!

Capt Chef Mark SV Alcina that will be come really complicated!Also the most of the rigging on a square rigger is designed around keeping the rig standing up as you change the forces with all the different sail configurations. Ultimate sail shape from rig adjustments is low on the priority list. Cheers Warren

Will do! When I cover sails, I’ll do one on junks (I’ll just have to take off all the standing rigging)

@@RiggingDoctor - "I’ll just have to take off all the standing rigging" - At least that will simplify things!

@TheCopaMundial I think you may have misinterpreted my comment. I am not questioning the purpose and effectiveness of a curved airfoil, but rather how the optimal curved shape is achieved at all elevations. For example, there is no difficulty in curving a flat sheet of paper to any desired airfoil shape. Attaining this shape with the trailing edge curved eliminates the possibility of having the optimal shape everywhere.

We cover solent rigs in an upcoming video (it’s filmed, I just need to finish editing it)

I don't mean to troll - you are obviously intelligent and familiar with the principals of lift. However modern engineers have debunked the idea that camber or draft is merely for laminar flow purposes (an idea that even aircraft people have perpetuated over the years). It (the Bernoulli effect) is now known to account for about 75% of the lift in an air foil. The Newtonian component of lift accounts for only 25%. At slower speeds (sailing speeds compared to aircraft which is my background) the draft of a sail is much more vital than it is in an aircraft wing. Your reference to the old saw that even a bard door can be made to fly with enough power is true - but you neglect to realize that even a barn door creates a Bernoulli effect. I can refer you to an article that discusses this in depth: www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/1998/november/flight-training-magazine/bernoulli-or-newton . To sum it up I don't believe the presenter of this tutorial needs to modify his explanation at all - he is right on the money.

@@liamstone3437 thanks Liam. Just like Don Byers I was convinced by older articles on kites and barn doors and carried that around for all those years. Only that made most sense to me while sailing too, because conventional sails only have a single foil.

I think they are awesome but the entire boat needs to be designed and built for that purpose. The tapering mast to allow proper bending is genius!

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It’s the keels fault!!

That was Sammy clicking her beak 🤣

Not to a fractional sloop, but that is the plan for the Alberg 30!

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Those are typically places on the ends of bow sprits so that no one has to climb out there to change the headsail.

Sounds like a interesting topic too.

When I make the sails, I will cover this topic! ;)

It sure does, but I won’t have it as quickly answered as I did this video

I do cover this a little in the next video though 😁

@warp21drive That's me. I have a fractional rigged trimaran with leeboards and no backstay built for skinny waters and speed. The mast can rake between upright and back to move the CoE. The downhaul determines any bend in the mast.

I think this is a regional name for the masthead unit. In the states, it’s called a truck, but I have also heard it called a crane. Different names for the same thing 😁

You may have won this one. Here in the south the part is referred to as the masthead crane. But it seems the crane is a better descriptor of the overall component's function too include the boom, while truck is given as a nautical term for the specific part of the crane in general. Who knew? When you said truck, my inclination was to understand it as a part that moved in relation to the masthead, i.e., something pulled along the length of something else, like a mast.

And one is better than the other for the purpose.

@@RiggingDoctor Hm ... it totally depends for what the boat is used. If you want racing then you don't care that you could drop the mast (by hazard). If you are cruising then the "other" is much safer (both can be trimmed to perfection).

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True, but it is hard to beat a fractional rig sloop going upwind. For people who want to race around the buoys, this would be their ideal rig.