Speed Off the Line

You can organise on the fly out & downhaul systems, some would dump both at the weather mark and balloon out the sail for the downwind legs, personally I preferred a tight rig which pumps better and the time taken to adjust the downhaul measured against a lost shift or tack whilst you were distracted wasn't worth the preceived speed gain.

Back in the day I experimented with boom vangs (kicker style arrangement) and topping lifts but really nothing works any better than good hard pumping, something I can do in a dinghy now, but the Miracle Mums whine like biatches even if they see the little Solution rocking a bit, they don't even like it when I stand up to force it to leeward with my knees when it gets a bit iffy.

But I've got to say what they're suggesting in that video about leaning it to leeward then rocking out hard looks exactly like pumping to me.

Edited by iGRF - 14 Dec 16 at 4:58pm

Originally posted by iGRF But I've got to say what they're suggesting in that video about leaning it to leeward then rocking out hard looks exactly like pumping to me.

And if your course didn't change it would be. You lean it to leeward to steer the boat, then roll it flat.

Or 'demented butterflies'..... Oh hang on that's windsurfers innit?