RS 200 Battens

Be worth checking your batten tension also.  I never had a problem in my 200 (that i can remember) Although had a big problem in the first D-one, it took me months to work out why i was so slow upwind in the light stuff.  Turned out that after watching someone else sail the boat the battens were massively too light.  Forcing far to much fullness into the sail (which actuallyaltered the cut shape of the sail)  I couldnt spot the difference whilst sailing the boat but as above, when someone else was sailing it i noticed it.  Once the tension was cracked off my boat speed was then similar to the rest of the fleet.  It also meant that the battens snap across with no effort out of the tack.

I would be interested in the thinking behind that rule revision, is there a big advantage in using the gybing strop for tacking then? Secondly is the gybing strop an option or is it a standard piece of kit. Does that mean you can't use the falls to crack the main then?

I thought the class rule, allowed you to still you can use the gybing strop to re straighten out the batterns just not hold the gybing strop down wind to stop pumping. Also you should never remove the gybing strop on the rs200 its essential for gybing in strong wind.

Edited by kingdacks - 07 Jan 13 at 7:19pm

Originally posted by GybeFunny It has been illegal to use the gybing strop in a 200 for anything but gybing for at least 5 years, probably more.