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Many of you use a fixed cunningham or a mainsheet which adjusts the cunningham.
What's the advantage? Tightening the mainsheet would tighten the cunningham also.
Wouldn't that result in a reduced power? More tension, less curve?
How about making it adjustable during the ride, by making it two separated systems?
If you attach some clamcleat within reach, you could make the cunningham long enough and adjust it while riding.
Or are we talking against Class5-rules here?
SA
2865 posts
Well spotted you have been thorough looking through the forum, the reason for one system rather than two is things happen normally fairly fast while sailing.
Pulling on the cunningham / down haul flattens the sail and moves the drive in the shape further forward making a faster sailing yacht, letting it off moves the drive back and better low down grunt.
There have been many ways and configurations but they all sort of do the same thing though.
