The Tasar v the Icon

Thanks 2547. Your fingers are faster than mine; two finger typing watching the Commonwealth Games sorry to repeat you.

If you like I could come down and take you through a level two course.  You could learn to tack and gybe plus learn the famous Five Essentials.  Then there might be some hope.

Centre board hard down, jib running by the lee poled out, goose winged but slightly hardened up say 5 -10 degrees up from a mean dead run, but with the tide correcting.

Got to remember Trevs first ever go in a boat other than the Alto, so he's feeling his way and we're sailing a tad defensively. Normally, if not on the side, he'd sit astride the centre console, so hence my feeling he'd be better off with a thwart.

Even last week, Andrew who is a very experienced crew, tended to the scuppers rather than up on the side, you also forget it is slippery as hell, even if you're up there, it'll slide you down now and again.

This week it's a proper SW wave fest, not like the N/E which produced a shorter chop, with wind over tide and cross waves lifting the port stern quarter and going for a surf would only have taken us down tide below the mark, it was a bit of a tricky leg. a Spinnaker might have given us more to bite against, but not, we tried one rounding going high and fast to see if we could play the angles but that didn't work, we lost ground, soaking was the only way.

Never been in a two hander that felt so much like a single hander, off wind death rolling, but not quite, before.

Edited by iGRF - 03 Aug 14 at 9:44pm

Originally posted by winging it If you like I could come down and take you through a level two course.  You could learn to tack and gybe plus learn the famous Five Essentials.  Then there might be some hope.

Am I the only one who finds it somewhat bizarre that the Commodore of a sailing club seems to do his best to deter people from going there?  He constantly advertises how awful launching is, potential new members just won't bother.