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    Posted: 19 Oct 06 at 6:09pm
The crew doing the main must help a huge amount on 2 sail reaches since they can use two hands to play the mainsheet.
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Most of the time that theory works, although we've seen a few boats go down the mine just due to the fact that the crew or helm forgets to play the jib in the gusts.  
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