sausage said...Ian K said...
Could be to allow a bit more flex? Sail gets deeper and more powerful as it pulls harder. Sometimes a little positive feedback is a good thing.... if you can handle it.
Ian,
Wouldn't the draft end up being all over the place making it more inefficient and as you mentioned, difficult to handle?????
choco said...
there is a second life for broken booms after all
I'd have to sail to New Caledonia if I had one of those.
Not sure, maybe cammy sails don't shift draft all that much with changing outhaul. But unless that boom has a thicker diameter, or is made to a very different recipe to a regular boom, it has to be flexing more. So, either flex is over-rated as a bad thing, or twice as much flex going downwind, for some, is a good thing.
