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hey guys sail trim is an art in this
video we're not going to go into the
super advanced stuff we're gonna give
you guys the basic tools and tips to
help you with your sail trim this will
maximize your speed it's gonna help you
be better trimmed than 90% of the
sailors in the water and it's gonna help
you get the most out of your sails let's
talk about how to get perfect Genoa trim
first so many charter boats and many
votes that are gonna be on you're gonna
notice that the tail tails are off
they're missing and so we're gonna give
you a few tricks that are gonna help you
see where to put that Genoa in relation
to the boat for the different points of
sail let's start with a close haul a
close haul is 45 degrees of the wind
it's kind of the closest we can sail to
the wind here our general is gonna be
really tight it's usually gonna be just
inside the lifelines right kind of over
the lifelines as tight as it'll go next
point of sail down is a closed reach
that is sixty to seventy-five degrees
from the wind and what we're going to
notice here is that we're now using our
genoa out a little bit and the foot of
the Genoa at its widest point is one to
two feet from the lifelines the next
point of sail down is a beam reach which
is ninety degrees to the wind we're
gonna ease our genoa out a little bit
more and here you'll notice that the
foot of the Genoa is about three to four
feet from the lifelines at its widest
point after this we go to a broad reach
and a run a broad reach is about a
hundred and twenty to a hundred and
fifty degrees from the wind you're gonna
notice that your sail trim own agenda is
very similar for a broad reach and a run
what we're looking for here is we want
the Genoa to come off of the Furler at a
ninety degree angle
some folks will over ease it and as you
ease out that jib sheet you'll see that
the Genoa has a tendency to start going
in front of the boat and that actually
reduces the slot where the wind can
catch the Genoa so really important the
general should be coming off at a ninety
degree angle from the fur lip it's a
really fine tune our Genoa sail trim
we've kind of talked about roughly where
the sail is going to be in relation to
the boat now if you have Telltale's on
your boat which hopefully you will you
can really use your tail to else to get
a precise and
exhale trim sometimes here it can
honestly be a game of moving that jib
sheet an inch to get perfect sail trim
you'll notice that there are Telltale's
on the insides of your sail and on the
outside the rule of thumb is if you're
inside Telltale's are laughing bring it
in if your outer Telltale's are laughing
let it out
so in bring it in out let it out you'll
also notice that there are rows of
Telltale's on your genoa usually there's
about three if not four rows we really
want to make sure the bottom most rows
are flowing back really nicely that's
where we're getting most of the power
from in our genoa the top Telltale's can
be laughing about 50% of the time if you
notice that the Telltale's on the top of
your genoa are consistently just going
all over the place one of the common
mistakes here is that the jib car on the
track is too far back try moving that
forward a little bit and that will just
help with the sail trim on that upper
telltale
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let's look at mainsail trimmed out just
like we said when we were talking about
Genoa trim on charter boats often there
may not be any Telltale's on your Mane
so let's talk about where your boom
should be in relation to the boat for
each point of sail on the close all your
boom should be right down the middle the
boat centerline on the boat on a close
reach your boom should be pointing
towards the back corners of the boat on
a beam reach your boom should be right
over the primary winch when we go down
to a broad reach in a run we want to let
our sail out as far as it'll go in an
ideal world we put it at 90 degrees to
the boat but with swept-back spreaders
on most modern sail boats that's not an
option so the trick here is to ease your
sail all the way out your boom should be
out as far as it'll go without your sail
hitting or chafing with that spreader
don't want it chafing on the spreader or
it can slice and cut your mainsail so
that's roughly where your boom should be
for each point of sail that's going to
get us really close and now in an ideal
situation if you have Telltale's
we can use the Telltale's to get that
perfect tuning on our mainsail to get
perfect sail shape you'll notice like on
the genoa there's usually three to four
rows of Telltale's
on your mainsail the trick with telling
mainsail trim is those Telltale's
are on the very back of your sail on the
back edge or on the leech edge of your
sail when those Telltale's point out
breakout or point tours say the port
side you want to ease your sail out to
port
if the Telltale's are breaking in or
pulling towards your starboard side that
shows that you need to bring your sail
in what you're going to notice is on a
perfectly trimmed mainsail your bottom
tell tales are all streaming beautifully
back your top most telltale should
actually break or flutter about 50% of
the time
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