🤖 Claude.ai Analysis

TransPac ’15 is the only race of 36 that beats its own Morrelli & Melvin VPP target. Why — category composition, sample size, sailing angle, wind steadiness, swell, and the fleet-wide pattern behind it.

Race-type-matched comparison of VPP performance before and after the 2020 mast install — a real, asymmetric shift: sharply better upwind, slightly worse downwind.

Pure wind-axis quantification, tactics aside: sailing 145–155° TWA as the default downwind angle instead of the current ~132° habit, pooled across every logged race.

Heat up, then dive deep on the carried speed — a real helm habit, confirmed on six race families, that skews the polar's deep-angle bins toward momentum bursts rather than sustained capability. Tests whether the technique itself actually pays off.