Who was out this weekend?.....

When you shandies at Sunderland go out

Originally posted by timeintheboat Today - little to no wind inland. Up the front off wind  (broad reach -so not by the lee) in a laser. What is doing me most good? Board right down but up front so transom out on the water OR board up so only as near the front as the board allows - transom in the water. It has to be the former - but it feels wrong.

Long tiller extension, board up and up round the mast. It is possible, I'm about 6ft and can manage it, just dont fall in or pull the boat on top of you!  

Take up contorsionism (sp?) and get the board up and get forward

F5, peeing down, Tried to try out a Solution in the morning but didn't have the mainsheet rigged right so came in without really getting a fair impression.  Went out Byteing in the afternoon and had a great sail.  Now at work boo!

Originally posted by HannahJ we tack off and they tack simultaneously, even though there was no danger of collision (quite...) should we still have done our turn?

Case 50 in the case book talks about this sort of incident, although in the case it was Starboard bearing away behind port not tacking.

A starboard-tack boat in such circumstances need not hold her course so as to prove, by hitting the port-tack boat, that a collision was inevitable. Moreover, if she does so she will break rule 14. At a protest hearing, S must establish either that contact would have occurred if she had held her course, or that there was enough doubt that P could safely cross ahead to create a reasonable apprehension of contact on S’s part and that it was unlikely that S would have ‘no need to take avoiding action’ (see the definition Keep Clear). In her own defence, P must present adequate evidence to establish either that S did not change course or that P would have safely crossed ahead of S and that S had no need to take avoiding action. When, after considering all the evidence, a protest committee finds that S did not change course or that there was not a genuine and reasonable apprehension of collision on her part, it should dismiss her protest. When, however, it is satisfied that S did change course, that there was reasonable doubt that P could have crossed ahead, and that S was justified in taking avoiding action by bearing away, then P should be disqualified.

I reckon you can handily substitute tacking for bearing away, and so if S had a "genuine and reasonable apprehension of collision" you should have done your turns. If you didn't you should retire (yes, even now!).

Edited by JimC