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tornado435
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Topic: Why trap with kite downwind? Posted: 19 Jan 07 at 12:43pm |
We are quite a big crew by tornado standards and we also find we need to keep the weight quite far forward. Make sure you keep an eye on the fore aft trim and get the crew to adjust to suit. with my bulk stuck on the tramp, in most conditions dan is still in front of the rear beam. A lot of the time he is trapezing about where I trapeze going upwind...
Note to self, must continue the weight reduction program, anybody want a spare leg????? |
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Dermot M
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 07 at 1:37pm |
Jeeeez Biddy, You look like somebody's Granda being taken for a sail ! I agree that you don't just throw yourself out the back when trapezing. On the Spitfire, I walk quite a bit forward when the wind drops and then bear off and move back as it increases again. |
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English Dave
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 07 at 2:59pm |
Dermot (Thanks for e-mail - got the sad news by sms last night) I'm only all the way back in a hooley. It's all about watching the bow and choosing your position accordingly. Anyway what's your position on all this? At last year's inland I think I was the only one wiring downwind and t'other Dermot in his Tiger was advocating staying inboard. I think I am becoming half chameleon. I can now rotate my eyes independently and watch lee bow and mainsail at the same time! |
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SX501
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 07 at 6:30pm |
that was a very cold day and i had no hat. The reason you where the only one on the wire was because thereis no such think as a constant breeze in blesso. one min you are screaming next min wind shift of 90 degrees and its all stop. i Think anyway Biddy
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Dermot M
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jan 07 at 12:13am |
The wind at the Inlands in Blesso last year was quite gusty and a bit shifty. I found myself on the wrong side a few times I remember at the 2005 Spitfire Europeans, Jonathan Loday was helming and trapezed downwind in everything but the lightest winds. Most of the others stayed in. It started me thinking. I think that it depends on conditions. I have done very well, staying in sometimes, and other times trapezing. |
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