Something happened when I looked at my post after I got your answer Rob.
Earlier I followed a link to some older post on this forum which set something bad in the cookie. I had to delete it to get the look of the forum back.
My post was something like this:
When comparing modern sailing with the old square rigged sailing I've done I find that some true principles isn't as important even though true.
Modern sailboats may sail faster than the wind while reaching. That's not so with the old ships we're talking here. When sailing La Grace I found that the effect of loosing speed of the wind when running had a marginal effect on her as 15 knots wind running gave 5 knots speed and 18 knots on a broad reach still gave us 5 knots. There was a difference though with Tre Kroner of Stockholm. She's a much better sailer and I think her hullshape makes a huge difference. I would also say her leeway was much less eventhough I have no number to confirm that. La Grace is built after plans from about 1775 and Tre Kroner is a steel hulled replica of a brig from 1845. I will admit that she's bigger with 115 feet to La Grace 78 feet and 735 sqm sail plan to La Grace's 364 sqm.
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