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From: Rick Kennerly (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 05:00:26 EST
A pix is worth a thousand words. Forgot I had this. It's a factory pix
from the 70s of a Westsail 32 with a full suit of working sails that better
illustrates what took two paragraphs to describe. You can see that there is
very little overlap of the foresails, which is why you need to fly both to
drive the boat on the wind. http://www.mouseherder.com/xapic/pix.html
Most of us probably fly a larger overlapping genny to make use of the slot
effect between the foresail and the staysail and just to get some more sail
up when it's slow out. You can see the difference in the first of these
rollover pix. http://www.westsail.org/
Rick
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Rick the Mouseherder - nh2f
Westsail 32 Xapic, Hull #438
Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
A small boat and a suitcase full of money
beats a 40 footer tied to the Bank.
Visit our Westsail 32 Xapic
http://www.mouseherder.com/xapic
The Westsail Owners Assn. Homepage
http://www.westsail.org
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