I couldn't really say what was happening when I had my two masts on sidecar. I thought it went pretty well after I had got the booms rotated to the wing and better battens, I had fairly triangular leeches though, so you would have a gap of nothing at the boom height upto about 2m at the mast tops. I didn't seem to feel like the aft mast made as much difference to your speed/power like tending to support the single main idea. But the lower centre of effort of two sails and the beams linked to masts ideas are the counter arguments.   doug --- On Fri, 26/8/11, Rob Denney <harryproa@gmail.com> wrote: From: Rob Denney <harryproa@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [harryproa] gap between schooner masts To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au Received: Friday, 26 August, 2011, 6:07 PM   No, but as non overlapping jibs work, then the front boom just about touching the aft mast and the sail as straight leeched as possible would be a good place to start.  Unfortunately on El the masts were a bit bendy which meant the slot was pretty wide from half way up the mast.  see http://harryproa.com/Elementarry/SailingPhotos_4.htm rob

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