5 EXPERT TIPS
Feb 10, 2022
4 minutes
Simon ‘Stir’ Fry is a world-class trimmer with wins in a huge range of classes. He shares headsail set-up tips with Andy Rice
The challenge of headsail trimming, according to Stir Fry, is understanding at any given moment what the team is aiming to achieve. On a busy race course, those aims are ever-changing.
Whether you’re going for VMG speed in open water, footing through some bad chop or sheeting in hard to live in a thin lane, the trimmer needs to be in sync with the helmsman and the mainsheet trimmer for the ‘speed loop’ as well as knowing what the
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