Absolutely Bruce! That's great anecdotal evidence of how little of an adjustment impacts the helm. You're also right that the weather helm VS Lee helm is ultimately what you are trying to adjust. Remember that slight weather helm is desirable as Lee helm can actually be dangerous since the boat won't round up into the wind. So more rake = more weather helm.
Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 08:02 Bruce Whitmore via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > By tightening or loosening the forestry, you affect weather or lee helm. > We had a little too much weather helm for my liking, so I tightened the > forestay, probably reducing the forestay length by about 1/2". It doesn't > sound like much, but it got my weather helm just where I like it (a little, > but no more than about 1/8 turn of the wheel under most sailing > conditions). Others may be right that the adjustment should have occurred > at the mast partners, but I didn't think about it at the time. My point is > that as others have said, forestay tension should be adjusted y tightening > the backstay, but don't forget that it will affect weather helm as well. > > > Bruce Whitmore > 1994 C&C 37/40+ > "Astralis" > Madeira Beach, FL > (847) 404-5092 > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
