Upwind Mainsail Trim: Shaping Your Mainsail, Part 3 - Draft Shape and Position

Welcome to our series on upwind mainsail trim. This video covers Draft Shape and Position, which is Part 3 of a four-part unit on shaping your sails.

TOPICS COVERED:

Sail Draft & Position

Terms

Benefits:
Improved Pointing
Overall Sail Performance
Wider "Groove" - better sail performance over larger range of angles of attack

Controlling Draft Position and Shape

Indications and Cues

Interactions and Challenges:
Sail design
Gust response
Effect of Older sails

In this series, we’re presenting a comprehensive review of basic and advanced mainsail trim concepts. We want the series to be useful and understandable for all levels of sailors.

Our strategy is to start with small bites and build them into a complete picture of sail trim. We’ll use a visual approach, and give you questions to think about during the presentations. We’ll stay practical, using theory only as needed.

Here the links to related content mentioned in the video
Velocity Made Good (VMG) https://sailzing.com/velocity-made-go...
Mainsail Telltales - A Better Approach https://sailzing.com/mainsail-telltal...
Outline (text version of the content in this video) https://sailzing.com/shaping-your-mai...

Each topic will have a video and outline version.

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