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The J-Class had a few good days of sailing with many J sailors amongst
the crew of only 30+ people that were man-handling these 140 foot giants
around the race-track. What's interesting is that the big J-Class
sailboats have taken a page out of the asymmetric crowd and have started
to use the asymmetric gybe, tacking one corner of the chute to the bow
and simply doing an outside sheet gybe (where the sheet is led in front
of the boat), therefore making it a much safer and easily controlled
gybe-- the loads on these 300,000 lb boats are only a few dozen tons or
more--- so avoiding any sudden loadings are a good thing.
