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    Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:27am
With pulling on a lot of cunningham, it allows the top section of your sail area to spill,at least in most of the fully battened sailed boats that I've sailed. Kicker seems to pull the centre of effort back in the sail, but what I reccomened is just to sail the boat and tune it till you find what's most suitable to your weight. We had spot on tuning guides for our boat, Went out in a Force 6, decided to adjust the cuningham excessively, made a hell of a difference, actually meant we could sail the boat a bit, and got a few bullets to our name. We have no calibration strips on our boat because we generally tune in to what's most fastest and handlable. Tuning guides can be good but often lead to complacency and if you are below the reccommended weight for your class, the best thing you can do is work out your own settings on the water................if the kicker and downhaul are jammed right in and the boat is still overpowereded, move down a notch on your shroud plates!

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Attending RS200 training days and open meetings would obviously be my best bet for learning more about the boat and seeking out help with settings etc. but... my main problem is not having a crew that's really interesting in anything more than handicap racing at our sailing club (not a great learning ground!)

I sail at Medway Yacht Club on the River Medway down in Kent. For those of you that don't know it (and I'm sure that's most of you!) it's a fairly large river and tidal, busy with both shipping and leisure boats.

"gonzo" - you mentioned heading downwind and sailing deep, where we should effectively kick arse. I'm not sure how deep we should be able to sail but on a run within a handicap fleet of bigger assymmetric kites we struggle to sail nearly as deep as them - is that right or am I doing something majorly wrong here as well??

I'm sorry if I sound seriously stupid to most of you guys but I've only really sailed a laser radial before and this is a wee bit different!
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In a strong blow in a rs200 fleet your going to struggle to sail high with the kite but should be able to plane down wind earlier than anyone else govoing you a big advanatge meaning you can bear off and sail the shorter distance to the mark.
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yea, i find that yank on some kicker and some cunningham and you should be fine

i think it has already been said but if the cunningham is right on and you are still overpowered then move down a should and start the cunningham at the top again and start pulling again till it feels good
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Do 200's tend to sail by apparent wind, when it isnt very breezy. There is an ok 200 at my club and they tend to sail 'low and slow' until it gets much more windy. Also at the SSR/200/400/assymetric event at East lothian last weekend, they all seemed to be sailing 'low and slow'.
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Originally posted by gonzo

In a strong blow in a rs200 fleet your going to struggle to sail high with the kite but should be able to plane down wind earlier than anyone else govoing you a big advanatge meaning you can bear off and sail the shorter distance to the mark.

Im not sure what your trying to say here? Yes, they may be light, and true they will be able to sail low, but wont be gaining the power other boats do - so sailing low is still going to be slower than sailing high, breezy or not.
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