{"id":742,"date":"2000-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2012-03-07T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:24:28","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew83\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising in the Fast Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Dashews are getting up to speed trimming Beowulf’s new sails, and have some amazing results to share…with photos.<\/div>\n

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\"Beowulf<\/p>\n
Beowulf on a beam reach.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Regardless of what type of boat you sail, nobody likes to go slow. Fast is indeed fun, and safer, and almost always more comfortable. In the last decade huge advances have been made in sail design and construction – yielding ever faster boats. <\/p>\n

The incredible speeds we are seeing from some of the IMS race boats, single-handers, and even the 60-foot trimarans racing in Europe is primarily based on advances in the sailmaking realm. <\/p>\n

\"Beowulf<\/p>\n
Beating.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This race-bred technology is filtering down to cruising sails. You just have to know what to ask for. <\/p>\n

In our case, the original sails designed for Beowulf by Dan Neri were clearly fast. But there were some trade-offs (as we and Dan discussed previously on SetSail – click here to read). With the pressure of two Whitbred and two America’s Cup races, sailmakers have learned how to eliminate most of those trade-offs – these three photos of Beowulf, taken a couple of weeks ago in North Sound in the British Virgin Islands, show just how far these design capabilities have come. <\/p>\n

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Close reach.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now that we are getting up to speed on how to trim these new sails we have some amazing results to share. Upwind, we are seeing between seven and ten percent improvement in VMG. Reaching, the figure is more in the three to five percent range, and jibing downwind we are looking at a boost of six percent or so. Considering Beowulf was not particularly slow before, these are huge numbers. And the only thing that has changed are the new main and mizzen. <\/p>\n

Is there a performance boost here for “conventional” rigs? Our guess is yes. Maybe not as great as on Beowulf (or maybe more), but if you go to a large roach design, one which is agressively past the backstay (see Offshore Cruising Encylopedia page 95 for details), the odds are you will be astounded by the difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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