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I've also thought about this and I'm convinced it's possible, probably
easy with the schooner, lately I've been considering the una rig and
that should be possible too.
The schooner rig- Remember that Slocum got Spray to steer downwind by
over easing both sails, should be relatively easy to do something similar.
With the una rig my thoughts are to adjust balance by having the
forward rudder used as a daggerboard and by raising or lowering it
balance should always be perfect, then adjusting to self steer
hopefully becomes possible.
Just read that, wasn't too clear, hope it was understandable.



-- In harryproa@..., "doha720" <doha720@y...> wrote:
>
> G'Day,
>
> Here's a question that no one would probably tried yet.
>
> Can you put a sail up so that it is pulling somewhere forward of the
> mast, tie the rudder straight forward, and hace the boat sail itself
> downwind overnight?
>
> On the Schooner rig this could be the forward mainsail sheeted out.
>
> Actually I was only thinking about the schooner rig and haven't
> thought about the single rig they have on the biger boats.
>
> This is to saingle hand across a stretch of water taking more than a
> day.
>
> Doug
>