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getafix 
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 Topic: The SoloPosted: 06 Dec 13 at 9:45am |
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in light winds, move less, it disrupts the flow over the sail.... that includes your jaw GRF....
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NickM
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Posted: 05 Dec 13 at 11:45pm |
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Just imagine what he would be like in an EPS...
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iGRF
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Posted: 05 Dec 13 at 8:33pm |
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Solo Man weighs about the same as me, but in a slightly taller leaner and definitely uglier package and I guess that and the fact he's a helm of not inconsiderable experience, he's also quite devastating in a Scorpion on the odd occasion on a Wednesday afternoon series.
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Rupert
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Posted: 05 Dec 13 at 8:25am |
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Like most boats, I'd think the lighter you are, the further forward the optimum sitting position in light winds becomes. GRF would be able to sit on the foredeck, weighing as he does about the same as one of Santa's Elfs.
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Roger
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Posted: 04 Dec 13 at 7:40pm |
Pretty spot on in my book Russ, never any further forward than one cheek either side of the traveller has always been my rule. |
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Ruscoe
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Posted: 04 Dec 13 at 11:36am |
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Position in the boat is critical in the solo, especially (not being rude Jimbo) at your weight. Too far forward and the bow will dig and you will be dog slow, to far back and you will see the wash through the transom flaps. Its a fine art to find the right position, i keep an eye on the transom and listen to the noise off the bow. i found one leg in front and one behind the traveller worked for me at 92-95kg (at the time) I wouldnt want to be any heavier in a Solo really as i think it would be a struggle to sit anywhere correctly
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 04 Dec 13 at 10:32am |
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FWIW- I found one foot planted either side of the leeward thwart seemed the best, with a very small amount of leeward heel in really light stuff... I have tried right up front, but it seemed to dig a lot. One thing's for sure, a few crap tacks and it will kill any ground you've made up through a good wind shift call.
The guys at the front of our fleet are pretty damn Lionel Richie through their transitions...
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iGRF
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Posted: 04 Dec 13 at 10:23am |
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As to where you should be in a solo, I've never sailed one am in no position to comment but will anyway, looking at it I would think you need to be ahead of that traveller thing in that front bit, certainly nowhere near those foot slot things they give you to hook your plates of meat in. I'm fairly sure Solo man down the lake was right up front, I rarely actually got to watch him, if you look back you're dead in stuff like that, just heard and reacted to his constant calls for water at marks then couldn't see him because he was behind my sail as I tried to shut off his air supply.
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iGRF
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Posted: 04 Dec 13 at 10:15am |
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This is the EPS, which reacts very similarly to a long board (probably why I like it) so I foot steer it, pressure on the lee foot to heel it, hold the boom in a bit low boomed but generally I can get it to feel a bit like a board when the wind is light, the only problem the rig doesn't move back and forward so I have to have that bloody wiggle thing in one hand, hence not being able to cope with much more than low wind boom pressure, but it does give you excellent feel for what's going on in the sail to optimise such power/pressure that there is, that and the little pointy wind vane thing on the front and it's really good, don't miss any shifts.
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 04 Dec 13 at 9:50am |
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if you're standing up, how are you ensuring your weight distribution is optimised? (I'm not suggesting I know where that is on a Solo, I've tried all sorts of combinations of where my legs and arse cheeks go in very light winds around the centreboard case and thwart... under the scalpel would seem the most effective.)
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