0:14 you're trying to luff with your jib fully powered and your main fully eased. You should release a bit of your jib and try to balance your settings between main and jib. If you can only power a third of your main without capsizing then your jib should be only powered on a third of its aera. This is how you keep control in your rudder. Whenever you want to luff or bear away you need to adjust your sails to match your rudder imput : luffing requieres less power in the jib and more in the main, bear away needs more power in the jib and less in the main. So in the gusts when you're trying to luff with power in your jib and no power in your main nothing happens and it has to be expected
I agree completely. Sometimes difficult to implement that practice in puffy conditions on a Scott though. When a strong puff hits, the jib trimmer is often hanging on for dear life to the job sheet. If you can see the puff coming you can pre-ease a bit. If you know those puffs are likely, you should pull back your job cars. We were caught a bit off guard.
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0:14 you're trying to luff with your jib fully powered and your main fully eased. You should release a bit of your jib and try to balance your settings between main and jib. If you can only power a third of your main without capsizing then your jib should be only powered on a third of its aera. This is how you keep control in your rudder. Whenever you want to luff or bear away you need to adjust your sails to match your rudder imput : luffing requieres less power in the jib and more in the main, bear away needs more power in the jib and less in the main. So in the gusts when you're trying to luff with power in your jib and no power in your main nothing happens and it has to be expected
I agree completely. Sometimes difficult to implement that practice in puffy conditions on a Scott though. When a strong puff hits, the jib trimmer is often hanging on for dear life to the job sheet. If you can see the puff coming you can pre-ease a bit. If you know those puffs are likely, you should pull back your job cars. We were caught a bit off guard.
Good job handling boat in conditions like this.