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I noticed this on Michael Storer article on Duckworks:

http://www.storerboatplans.com/wp/design/rig/sails/sailing-unstayed-cat-ketches-and-cat-yawls-safely-and-efficiently-downwind-in-strong-winds/

Back in the late 70's and early 80's there was a fleet of bareboat 30-some foot unstayed cat ketch charter boats here in Belize. Their delivery skipper had also delivered many Garry Hoyt Freedom 40's (the first 'mainstream' unstayed cat ketches) to the Virgin Islands. He almost always had the main by the lee (forward of the mast) when reaching, with or without a staysail on the mizzen, and said it was the fastest way to go.
Has anyone tried this on Core Sounds? They are much smaller, but have the same rig.


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Yes, we did it on Bay River Skiff 17. In other words it was sailing wing-and-wing while going broad reach. Generates more speed indeed. We called it "wrong broad reach" (rough translation from Polish). Worth practicing. 

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I've gotta work on that!  There's a video on YouTube about this.   Michael Storer demonstrates the technique on a GIS.  

 

@wwbaginski-- "wrong broad reach" sounds right to me!  Out of curiosity, what does it look like in Polish?

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That's it, Thirillsbe! As for that Polish improvised term, we called it "krzywy baksztag" what exactly means "crooked" or "skew broad reach". It's an interesting story on how sailing terms have been spread and mixed, anyway. "Baksztag" seems to follow "backstay".

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