F18 Worlds 2022 – Setup Guides

Ravi Parent Nacra Evo

I agree with a lot of what has been said above. Severin and I were sailing in the Nacra Evo trimsheet, but with tighter shroud tension most of the time. In lighter wind were 180kg, breeze up to about 205kg. Mast rake was 5.3deg at 195kg for the whole regatta, but could probably adjust that more often. Mast rotation was the same as what was said above too

For our practice before the regatta we focused on speed and starting. For speed it was generally transitions, especially in the light/medium conditions and choppier conditions. For starting I agree it was really hard to know distance to the line far from an end especially without a line sight. Most of the time the line was square so we opted to start near the boat most races. With confidence in our speed our goal was to get off the line clean, hold a lane, and make a decision once we could see further up the course. We felt this was a conservative option because we could always go straight, but if we started further down the line it was harder to cross and go right through stbd tack boats. This strategy usually didn’t have us winning races when the left side was stronger but it was consistent. We were really disciplined about our prestart homework getting angles and line checks

Our boat was new last spring, sails used in training and racing at windy Garda and training and racing here. But definitely don’t think the boat is the deciding factor. Newer sails help but also not essential. We were 159kg at Europeans and 155kg here

We thought about the offshore breeze geographically. So earlier in the day we thought the right side was quite close to land and often shadowed so we saw lots of people crossing from the top left. Then as the breeze died it would rotate more right/east and then right pressure/angle was more predictable. Seabreeze was much steadier, early seabreeze better a little offshore, developed seabreeze started to rotate clockwise so right angle a little better and a little flatter inshore too. @Severin Gramm any more thoughts?

Kostas Trigonis – Scorpion / 1D

Our tuning guide
1) Mast rake : from 5,3( light wind )up to 5,7 (medium to strong breeze. The numbers are in degrees.
2)Diamond wires tension:
a)Light breeze up to double trapezing (4-9 knots) 38 on loose and gage tension gauge.
b) 9-12 knots 39-40
C)13 -16 knots 41- 43
D) 17+ 43+ (no more than 45 as you can break the mast under specific circumstances if you don’t know how to handle this tension properly)
3) Shroud tension
We start with 27-28 and we never go more than 31

4) Mast Rotation
We mark the mast rotation in degrees. 0 deg rotation is full in. 90 deg is full open.

a)Light breeze:30 deg
b)One hull flying with one person on trapeze almost 40
C) double trapezing 35
D) overpowered double trapezing 30 deg. And if wind goes anything over than 20 knots we can go even 20-25 deg. Tip. If you pull rotation so much in do not forget to ease it when you are about to bear off so you won’t break the mast.

The above are the basics.
We do play also with boards but from boat to boat this is different as boats have different shape of daggerboards and battens.
Unfortunately I can’t explain everything at the app.

Kostas Main Tip

1)train more
2) do it with other boats if possible around marks
3) ask for help (coaching) to improve
4) and most of all keep in mind that you can’t “buy” performance. You build it.
Hope I helped a bit!