[C320-list] Steering Friction

[Greg Arnold]

On 10/19/2023 9:51 AM, Dennis Cookson via C320-list wrote:
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> One question: you refer to your headsail as a jib - do you mean that it is actually a relatively small sail, ie not overlapping the mast? That puzzles me as it would tend to result in increased weather helm under full main sail, would it not?   I believe that my standard headsail is a 135% genoa which together with an unreefed main would surely result in less weather helm than a non-overlapping jib?
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If you go from, say, a 135 to a 105, you will be removing sail area that
is aft of the mast when you are close-hauled.  Could you reduce weather
helm when you remove that sail area?