Adjustable raking systems

Time in the same boat and coaching, would give you a significant advantage, certainly more than all the gizmos, excepting making it foil.

Originally posted by patj The modern Applecore has adjustustable shrouds and jib tension but gets away without lowers by having a hog stepped mast with an adjustable ram at deck level. Add leading back the forestay to pull the mast forward again and there can be an awful lot to do at those marks even for two crew and ensuring you get the same settings twice is probably the hardest bit.

And all for a minuscule speed gain in a one design with loose rules concerning rigging.
If starting from scratch, surely there are better ways of getting a bigger increase in speed?

Edited by Cirrus - 17 Nov 20 at 10:44pm

Well to further explain how I'm coming to the conclusion that moving the mast foot is preferable to just plane raking the rig by letting go the forestay and pulling it bacik up again which is pretty much all that's open to me on say the Solution and that Supersofa, and to a limited extent it helps by depowering upwind if it gets a bit blowy and dead downwind with the shrouds slack getting the boom out.

But think about it, if the mast base could be shifted back without moving the shroud anchor ponits then that moves the boom pivot back and accomplishes the same thing, without necessarily having the depower going on upwind unless you moved it a long way forward.

Also, and it is a bit of an issue with this Fireblade boat which rides a bit nose up, I suspect because it's actually a cut down Icon (with a bit of a noisy stern), so moving the mast base forward would help keep the nose down and engaged waterline length and all a la Raceboard. It's tricky really, I can't help thinking like this because it's what works and has served well over the stand up years. I guess what I'm really looking for is good reasons not to, other than just the pfaff it's going to cause.

I need to have more goes and get some wiring time in before really going hard at it, but I just wanted to know what had been tried down the years and thanks for everything y'all have come up with so far.

Edited by iGRF - 17 Nov 20 at 10:21pm

A commonly held misconception is that the mast foot position is an effective method of adjusting the mast rake and C of E position. It is not but it is really good at changing the mast bend. It works with the deck level or lowers to stiffen or bend the mast.