Every so often I get on a boat that has rig-tune “issues” and sometimes the more we try to tune the rig straight, the worse it gets. When this happens I find it useful to step back and focus on five ...

A few years ago, I was helping a friend find a good boat for beer can racing on Lake Erie. His criteria were simple—a relatively big cockpit, easy to sail but challenging to set up well, and priced so ...