The Solution.

Which if you get it wrong so unbalances a craft without a rudder. Too upright a rig, track back close to the CB, the board stalls constantly tries to point overly high and it rails up (heels) in even the slightest breeze, it's a technique we used to make the board rail when its light, to point higher and sail faster although very uncomfortable. Our rigs rake from the bottom, with up to 30 cm of travel so whilst the foot moves forward and the mast tip back the relationship of the CE over CB doesn't alter that much and you can run in quite strong winds with the Centreboard down. In fact the rule of thumb with boards is leave the plate down at all times unless its impossible then kick it all the way up, no half measures except maybe in tight fetches.

But in a dinghy raking the rig from the top down, without the foot moving forward brings a weird feel to it which until now, with the raking cb I've never felt to be that efficient. We're also dealing with a tin rig, which is absolutely useless in my pre conceived mind at depowering, the problem with tin they have to build them so stiff because if they bend they have a tendency to stay bent as against Carbon which prime USP is its return to centre response time so having taken the heat out of a gust quickly re attaches the flow and adopts its efficient shape.

Why am I rambling about all this? I want a carbon rig I guess, is the answer to that I hate boats without them normally, this one is a little different I think because the sail is cut fairly flat and with these bonus controls possibly work aroundable. Two sails and only one race is too early to say, but I know this, if this boat had the d zero rig there wouldn't be any hesitation.

So, I wonder if anyone has rigged it with a single rope Merlin style system, clearly that's the answer.

They will make noise especially on a non rotating mast if you have them on hard.