[quote=turbohobo]Yup! pretty much what I had already figured out even with my limited experience, the H16 mast base had a stopper and limits the amount of mast rotation but most performance cats have the nylon ball sitting on top of a rod and there is no limiter, in fact most performance cats even have a mast rotator bar to manually rotate mast. And then there is the 2:1 downhaul, which most racers upgrade to even 6 or 8:1, I can only imagine the forces exerted on a mast with a 8:1 downhaul; and then you have the 2:1 outhaul, I'm sure that is upgraded as well, all in an effort to stretch the sail as tight as possible to increase airflow over the wing/sail, so as to increase overall boat speed. But unless one is schooled in airflow properties and how to read "telltales" on one's sail, one will reach a plateau with sailing, which can only be overcome with the help of someone more experienced.
I think I have just about reached that stage.
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