Rocking & Rolling

Originally posted by Brass Its how the game is meant to be played.

Well, its going to be smack on the limits of what is permissible. As for how its meant to be played, well, who decides that anyway? Isn't RRS42 regulation and enforcement more about the art of the possible than anything else?

I think for those of us who are amateurs back from the leading edge there are two considerations. The first is that we should endeavour never to exceed the rule, which is difficult enough, and the second is to figure the comfort zone we personally want to sail in.

Edited by JimC - 12 Aug 22 at 6:48pm

Mate, they're Olympic Medal Races, with the best rule 42 judges in the world all over them.

Its how the game is meant to be played.

Originally posted by Sam.Spoons I'm thinking that I will have to try a different technique downwind.

Maybe you could put some video of the top notch Laser guys in circulation to shift the culture around.

Radical steering, to grab hold of every little 9 inch wave. A surf doesn't have to be a 20 metre ride with spray flying back in your face.   Its just 'rapidly accelerating down the front of a wave' (rule 42.3(c)). That could be for just 1 or 2 metres.

As I've said before, I think its a shame that subtle skilful kinetics are banned. However the unsubtle less skilful violent kinetics are rather more effective, and I'm not smart enough to think of a way to permit the first and ban the second.

Originally posted by Brass Really, advantageous manoeuvre of a boat by skilful use of legal kinetics should be applauded, not criticised.