by Nick Martin » Fri May 22, 2015 8:50 pm
There's a lot more mast bend effect on the Finn .. The Finn it also has a stretchy luff to make the Cunningham work .. Really on in conjunction with mast .. With the cc these are not significant elements of the rig .. There may be some small effect from tensioning the throat halliard - especially if that also pulls a little on the lacing on the gaff .. But these effects are small .. If you want to depower a cc rig you are mainly looking at reefing .. If the centre of effort of the sail I too far aft, then there may be some value in tensioning the clew ... But if he that doesn't work, then your sail I blown out! .. But that wouldn't worry me particularly as its ok off the wind and in my experience the set of the foresail(s) is more critical up wind .. In anything of a breeze I usually have at least one reef in the main, even without any mast rake .. Nick