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Apr
We recently sent out a seamanship and navigation email newsletter with info about trysails. We got some great feedback, including this response from Butch Ulmer, Former Commodore of the Storm Trysail Club: “Good article about trysails. Here are a couple of additions your readers might be interested in. Sheeting the trysail to the main boom put’s the mainsheet trimming hardware to work and leaves your cockpit winches free to do other jobs. Use one of your mainsail reef lines to sheet the trysail to the boom and once the trysail is sheeted home, tie a safety line through the clew and around the…