[quote=dmgbear55]Understanding what the position of your mast is just the starting point. Knowing that changing the rake fore or aft effects the feel on the rudder and how the boat behaves. When you have the rake right for the normal wind conditions you are sailing in, the helm should have just a slight bit of weather feel to it, meaning it wants to round up. Too much weather helm slows the boat down because you are fighting it and bad things start to happen when you have lee helm (the mast is too far forward). In a perfectly dialed in boat the helm will be very nearly balanced, but I think most of us err towards the weather side of things. Then you throw in varying wind conditions and what once was set up perfectly now sucks.[/quote]
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