[quote=southstars2012]Revintage -- One more thing: while I do like your automatic lifting setup (we had considered something similar, again great minds think alike!), in the end we decided we didn't want to force lifting of the downwind side, and found it quite useful to be able keep the downwind wing down. For example, we could split our weights sitting on the downwind wing and upwind wings in light airs, to help the windward hull skim. On the other hand, we lost out on the advantage in heavy air of moving the leeward wing weight further inboard to increase righting moment... (we could manually clip the leeward wing up if we really wanted it, as we did while docking, but this would be hard to do quickly in heavy airs tacking).
I think the ideal solution would be a 'best of both worlds' approach -- using your lifting setup, one could add a secondary adjustment that allows shortening or lengthening the dyneema line between the two wings. In 'short' mode (medium/heavy airs), the weight on the windward wing then lifts up the leeward wing automatically (as in your current setup), while in 'long' mode (light airs) the line is long enough for both wings effectively stay down (as in ours)...[/quote]
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