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[QUOTE=fab100] Holding onto the gybing strop as the boom cones over takes a lot of the slam out of the gybe. QUOTE]

[QUOTE=jaydub] In the 100, the trick is to be crossing the boat before he boom starts moving, so that you hit the gunwale before the boom lands. QUOTE]

I can see good reason in both but being a bit short in stature doing both is a bit of a stretch.
I suspect not hitting the new gunwale hard enough might be part of the problem.

Edited by piglet - 08 Aug 17 at 8:59pm

Being as we had a windy club week last week, we had a chance to progress this a bit and made some progress.
Not swimming is essentially down to me getting my backside to the new gunwale in a timely manner while being more accurate with the wiggle stick. My failing here is that I tend to grab the new gunwale with my tiller hand which doesn't make for fluid steering.
Anyway we are now more confident in 20Kts+

However there is a new problem that we don't have an answer for.
Wineglassing.
STMBO has the kite well sorted in most conditions but now we are new territory at 20Kts+ it's going wrong again.
Suggestions much appreciated.
Tim

Originally posted by JimC Try sheeting in pre gybe.

I don't see many helms actually stand up to gybe. Not sure if that is just a turn of phrase, but try keeping your weight low. I don't get much chance to see what they actually do in the back of the boat ... but I remember going through a phase where himself tried a hundred ways of moving across the boat, sometimes falling over in the back of the boat.  Nowadays it's a sort of dive and glide but trying not to slip and paying attention to the roll. Not sure how we manage the roll. Not very fast I guess, but I have to try not to move to leeward too soon as we need the boat to be flat for the gybe and not heeled to leeward. Hope it helps!

A little heel to windward going into the gybe sounds good. You will need to ease some main but I don't know how much. I cannot think of any good reason to touch the kicker, as grabbing it may alter the shape of the main and disturb the flow. I don't grab the kicker, but I do need himself to count me into the gybe ... 3, 2, 1, go. Regarding the flappy thing and the wineglass, I don't think it can do it if there is not enough rope, so hold onto it. There's not enough time for mucking about with ropes, so the sheets have to be tied together in a continuous loop and be just long enough for sitting out behind the thwart. Any longer and you end up with rope around your ankles. Then, another tip that had to be explained to me by the younger generation, is not to move your hand on the rope all the time, but straighten your arm and raise it high, then when you drop your arm you let out that 'armful' of sheet and you are still holding it, so no wineglass? I don't think I let the old sheet go until I am sure it's safe to do so. Aim to let it out until the clew of the kite is just floating near the forestay, then you are instantly ready to sheet in on the new gybe. Does not work so well when it is very windy in which case do what Jim says. Hope that makes sense!