Scotsman bay sailing

[@lubberwalker]

I don't think your reef lines are rigged correctly.
They can't give you any leech tension the way you have them. Your leech must be flapping like mad in any blow.
It shouldn't be tied to the cringe but simply run through it and down to and tied around the boom to a point directly below the reef point.
Now when you tighten the reef the new clew will be both out hauled and down hauled, tightening the new foot and leech equally.
This means you can flatten sail shape in a blow.
Now, because you have downhaul your vang (and traveller if you have one) will actually have an effect on controlling the sail twist (not to mention reducing leech flap) that's limiting your speed through water.
Sorry if I'm wrong. I hope this helps.

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

@@lubberwalker thank you for saying this. I shall talk with John about it, he does the sails, I’m on helm. Last time we used a different reef set up our main ripped many years ago. I think it was different to your description though.
The Irish are notorious for not reefing sails when they should 🤣🤣

[@sailingsheriff3349]

Only just seen this notifications not working. You need a head cam or body cam. Anything like me you’ll take pictures of your feet or the sky never what you want to video🤠 great sailing though

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

Thanks for the tip