I’ve watched our amazing club member, Craig R, a whole number of times measuring his sail twists, his cambers and his slots… with simply his fingers. Amazing really – and he uses the same hands whether he is tuning an IOM or a Marblehead !!! You’ll have seen similar at your Club I’m sure.

Last week in the bar, Nigel B (fresh back from the IOM worlds – check out his blog on http://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk !) was talking about the same idea and saying he finds fingers so much more convenient than getting out measuring tapes and rulers. Interesting, but as a learner you sort of just log these comments away for future use!!

I’ve been pondering whether Nigel was just winding me up, but then I came across this:-

I know what you’re going to say…. all our hands are different sizes, left may be different to right, and have knuckle bumps but the point may be that once you have figured out your hand dimensions it wouldn’t take long to memorise this… or write it on with a felt tip pen!!

If you’re interested in this idea, you might also want to read this article that we published many months ago in the “Boat Setup and Tuning” Category of this website.

Rig Trimming and Tuning – Making It All much easier Part 2