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    Posted: 10 Oct 06 at 12:50pm

Originally posted by tornado435

Happened to me on saturday. Scary when it's tornado's and you've also got a row of Starboard boats coming into the mark. Still it was made a lot better by the fact that the Starboard boats were Leigh Macmillan and Rob Wilson.

 

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I've done this a couple of times when it's windy as I get buried easily on a large ACH start but am quick upwind and very quick when freed off a little. My tactic is to overstand to the left to get clear air and reach down over the whole fleet taking my chances on a gap in the starboard layline procession. Won on Sunday doing this!
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I was just nervous about me not knowing and T boning one of them. Don't think they would be overly happy as it is the qualifiers for next years worlds. But I was at the windward mark at the same time as them. Must keep eating the pies, pity I got left for dust downwind
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Originally posted by tornado435

I was just nervous about me not knowing and T boning one of them. Don't think they would be overly happy as it is the qualifiers for next years worlds. But I was at the windward mark at the same time as them. Must keep stop eating the pies, pity I got left for dust downwind

 
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But the pies help upwind

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You didn't get the angles right. - It's always been dodgy to approach a windward mark right on the port layline and nowadays it's extremely inadvisable.

If however you'd tacked 2  -3 boatlengths earlier, you'd have approached 2 - 3 boatlengths below the mark. That would have been (comparitively) safe when subsequently tacking in front of any starboard boats and you'd have nailed the overstanding port tacker.
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