Gybing Plates

You need to translate all that into Apple speak, not sure if there's much in the CAD world that comes without considerable expense.

Edited by iGRF - 26 Jan 16 at 2:53pm

There are several classes that use gybing boards, but in many of them only some boats have them. According to my theorising the angle of the board should match the 'leeway' angle the boat would take up with a non-angled board, so a boat with a hideously inefficient board would do best with more angle than a boat with an optimal one. But there are so many opinions about the things...

Regretably no access to autocad, but that's told me one thing I needed to know, the gybe angle, no more than 4 degrees, I think that's where I may have gone wrong before I seem to remember 7 degrees.

Fascinating document it advocates gybing plates without question and suggest jib angles can be altered, not that that's relevant in my case, but this little boat allegedly is not know for its' pointing capability, but that's hardly surprising if you could have seen this plate before I took a belt sander to it. it was just a parallel sided blunt both ended slab of wood, I'm even surprised they glass sheathed it.

Thanks for posting that, so do we know if 5 ohs still use gybing plates? With all this assym nonesense of recent years they must have well gone out of fashion.

Edited by iGRF - 26 Jan 16 at 12:32pm

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