Top Highlights

• Modern mainsail tracks and batt-car systems will assure that you can reef the mainsail even downwind. This is my preferred heavy-weather technique, especially when shorthanded in big beam seas.
• Space, Efficiency (low price) and Performance. You cannot have all three characteristics in a multihull.
• a five-day forecast today is as accurate as a two-day forecast was in 1980.
• The Power to Weight ratio (or Displacement/ Length D/L Ratio) is one of the most important efficiency indicators in a sailboat.
• The formula for the Power to Weight Ratio or Sail Area Displacement Ratio is: SA/D = SA / (Disp / 64)2/3