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    Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 8:18pm
Whilst I'm usually fairly competent with gate starts, can't understand why, for the majority of a season most people are getting well practiced at line starts then for the big event of the year, we revert to gatestarts that nobody is especially practiced at! I did a Laser nationals eons back where 215-odd boats started well enough off a line start. But what is the best way to determine when to go through a gate..early...mid...late! I always go early if I think I'm quicker than the pathfinder, later if not. Interested to hear other people's approach.
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Were Fireflies the first to use them?
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Do different,
Sounds like a few posters on here.
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Originally posted by jeffers

...Unless there is something special about their gate starts ...

Well, they're the only class that uses a 505 as the pathfinder [gdr]
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Journalists!  Not all by any means are expert in the subject they write on and then throughout that range of knowledge some love to ad lib with their own opinions............... 
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Originally posted by jeffers

The article on Y&Y states they use a unique gate start......

Unless there is something special about their gate starts they are far from unique, I have done them in Scorps and Fireballs over the years.

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Don't tell Trump tho, he'd have them build a moving wall rather than a gate boat and pathfinder




Edited by fab100 - 28 Sep 17 at 11:17am
Great book for Club Sailors here
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The article on Y&Y states they use a unique gate start......

Unless there is something special about their gate starts they are far from unique, I have done them in Scorps and Fireballs over the years.
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