[quote=Edchris177][quote]This submerges the bow and the boat will turn into wind, slowly.[/quote]
I find on my 5.7 that it doesn't work very well. I stood on those suckers for 15 minutes one day, with no movement. If you are trying to drag the sail "backwards" through the water, it is painfully slow, or not at all. Perhaps more weight, to sink the bow further,(create more drag) would help.
The mast can be swum quite easily, as long as you go in the direction of the leading edge of the mast. I did this, swum it 270* from mast being dead upwind. You have to be quick though, as the drag of the mast/sail wants to let the hulls move downwind, back into the same position you were in,(mast upwind)
The description given was for a 15' boat, maybe it is way easier on the smaller boats.
That link Damon was one I found while in Shanghai yesterday, quite a bit of good info. It seems like there is a good fleet of those boats, but not much personal experience on the web. I found one other link that showed the first sentence of a write up, but the link wouldn't go.[/quote]
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