[quote=samc99us]The absolute most critical thing is to ease your jib off more than you think; on most cats, the crew can only trim one thing at a time with reasonable speed and efficiency, and the helm can help by trimming say the main downhaul. So we're focused on the main with the sheet and downhaul, but the jib is kind of left to its own devices. In short, on a jib reach, on average, = you want the top of the jib flapping just a tad, which generally means when you bear off as the puff hits the jib trim is close to right or ideally still a tad out if the pressure is still on. If you don't do this the jib will drive the leeward bow in hard and capsize risk goes up immensely.[/quote]
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