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Windsurf Rig Settings Record

A free printable windsurf rig settings record: sails, masts, booms, boards and fins listed once, then the downhaul, outhaul, boom and harness line marks that worked.

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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

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What this sheet is for

Rig the same way when the same sail and wind come round again, without starting from scratch. The notes on how each set-up felt show what to change next time.

Who it is for

Windsurfers with more than one sail, board or fin, and coaches keeping notes for a squad.

How to use it

List your sails with the luff, boom and mast figures printed on them, and the rest of the kit below.
Write down once how you mark the downhaul, the outhaul, the boom height and the harness lines.
After a session, write the settings you used, the conditions and how it felt.
Next time, find a line with the same sail and a similar wind and start from there.

What is on the sheet

2 pages, in this order:

Page 1

Printed under the title: Your sails and the rest of the kit listed once with the figures printed on them, then the settings that worked on each day, so a good set-up can be found again instead of worked out from scratch.

Your marks, not ours. No settings are printed. Luff, boom and mast figures come from the sail itself; the rest are your own reference marks, such as a number on the boom cut-out, a pen mark on the downhaul rope or the extension, or finger widths on the harness lines. Use the same reference every time and write it down once, at the top of page two.

Write-on lines: Rider · Harness (seat or waist) · Harness line type

Sails — figures as printed on the sail

Table, 4 rows: No. · Make & model · Size · Year · Luff · Boom · Mast · Notes

Masts, booms, extensions, boards and fins

Table, 6 rows: No. · Item · Make & model · Size · Year · Notes

Page 2

How you measure — write it once so every line below means the same thing

Write-on lines: Downhaul and outhaul marks · Boom height reference · Harness line position

Settings used — the ones that did not work are worth a line too

Also printed: Sail and mast · Haul marks · Boom and board

Table, 17 rows: Date · Conditions · Sail · Mast · Ext. · Down · Out · Boom · Track · Lines · Fin · How it felt

Questions

Why are no tuning settings printed?

Settings depend on the sail, the mast, the rider and the wind, and the maker prints the starting figures on the sail itself. The sheet keeps your own: the marks that worked for you, against the conditions you used them in.

What counts as a mark?

Anything you can find again: a number on the boom cut-out, a pen mark on the downhaul rope or the extension, a hole in the boom, or finger widths on the harness lines. Write how you measure at the top of page two.