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Here is what a polar diagram looks like for a given sail combination. This is more for racers looking to gain every fraction of a knot. I'm a cruiser and simply trim sails to make the boat go as fast as possible through the water then compare the speed made good from the GPS on each tack to select the preferred tack.

Greg Rudzinski

>[NavList] Re: Course to steer at a given speed.
>From: Sean C
>Date: 6 Dec 2012 15:02
>"...wouldn't turning a sailboat into the current (as in my example) actually slow the speed through the >water enough to change the necessary course to steer? Or is this error so small as to be negligible? >Or is there some other way to factor that in?" -Sean

>Well, I posted my question over at Sailnet and someone there introduced me to Polar diagrams for >yachts. This was what I was missing. Apologies if I did not state my question clearly enough. Thanks >again for all of the responses!

>-Sean

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