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I often find myself stopped on the line in good position only to be gassed from above or below shortly after the start. When everyone's camped out on the line, what's the best way to accelerate (sail trim, kinetics, etc.)?
I often find myself stopped on the line in good position only to be gassed from above or below shortly after the start. When everyone's camped out on the line, what's the best way to accelerate (sail trim, kinetics, etc.)?
I think I'll be using the 5 horse power diesel engine my insurance company insists I have on my Laser !! I still cannot get them to provide me insurance for a Laser without the engine - so I might as well use it. Maybe I should call the manufacturers to find where they have hidden it on the boat.
(Sorry - a bit "off-topic")
Ian
Why don't you call or e-mail your district secretary to find out who insures Lasers in France?
ok well first of all im not big on sitting at the line... i go for the clean waters out to the port side of the line... time it so i hit the buoy at 0, tack out of ppls way, then I have clean air.... But with what you are doing... Absolutely DO NOT be a follower and pull in ur sheet when everyone else does... you have to be a leader... point low, get speed up, and shoot the line while they are all pulling their sails in
Oh BTW, please stop posting stuff about insurance... make a post er something for that
Curious. If you go off the line at the pin, (assuming the pin is the favored end and you nail it which is difficult in any decent sized fleet) at the gun, with speed, (because you don't luff) why would you tack onto port into the path of a whole bunch of Starboard boats to clear your air? You've just laid out a very difficult start plan.
Good example. Too bad no one has any footage of a big-fleet start.
Note he was exactly on the line at go while the other two boats were a little back. He also bore off and so hit the line with more speed than the other two.
fosq, on the start I always have my vang totally off so I don't get caught in irons from the constant luffing. I will head down at 8 seconds, build a crapload of speed, head up while rolling the boat and flattening the boat hard at around 1 second to go.
As you sheet in more vang tension makes the sail power up from the leech, this moves the centre of effort a long way behind the centre of lateral resistance causing the boat to round up to windward. Try bearing off in a big breeze with the vang on, it just won't happen.