Nationals Attendances

Yeah the top of the mast will rake a bit but with the twist in the sail because of letting the kicker off plus the boom pushing the shroud forward allows the boat to run deeper. It does work on a phantom so no reason why it won't on a solution.

Minisail Class almost stopped functioning since Rupert taken a back seat, so we can't rule out personalities and their influence and organisational skills on Nationals attendance.

Friendships help too. A nationals ain't the same of your friends have shipped class, however it can be counterproductive of the class becomes cliquey. The incumbents need to ensure that newcomers are made welcome. This happens in the phantoms. I remember being chatted to by the national champ at my first nats which wouldn't have happened in some classes. Makes a huge difference

Originally posted by maxibuddah Yeah the top of the mast will rake a bit but with the twist in the sail because of letting the kicker off plus the boom pushing the shroud forward allows the boat to run deeper. It does work on a phantom so no reason why it won't on a solution.

It does work on a Phantom as well, showed my pal how to totally smoke lasers downwind doing it.

It works because it slackens the shrouds on what was the lee side, the boom then swings further foward which takes up the slack and brings the mast back nearly where it should be but with the kicker dumped the top of the sail is ahead so you get a bit of flow reversal and can run by the lee, it gets a bit hairy when its very windy, but in light to medium is very effective.