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jeffers 
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 Topic: 5o5 worlds - Gate startsPosted: 28 Sep 17 at 11:14am |
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The article on Y&Y states they use a unique gate start......
Unless there is something special about their gate starts they are far from unique, I have done them in Scorps and Fireballs over the years.
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fab100
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 11:15am |
'mericans! Don't tell Trump tho, he'd have them build a moving wall rather than a gate boat and pathfinder Edited by fab100 - 28 Sep 17 at 11:17am |
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Do Different
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 11:30am |
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Journalists! Not all by any means are expert in the subject they write on and then throughout that range of knowledge some love to ad lib with their own opinions...............
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JimC
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 12:08pm |
Well, they're the only class that uses a 505 as the pathfinder [gdr] |
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423zero
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 1:03pm |
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Do different,
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Rupert
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 7:19pm |
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Were Fireflies the first to use them?
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Oinks
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 8:18pm |
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Whilst I'm usually fairly competent with gate starts, can't understand why, for the majority of a season most people are getting well practiced at line starts then for the big event of the year, we revert to gatestarts that nobody is especially practiced at! I did a Laser nationals eons back where 215-odd boats started well enough off a line start. But what is the best way to determine when to go through a gate..early...mid...late! I always go early if I think I'm quicker than the pathfinder, later if not. Interested to hear other people's approach.
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ColPrice2002
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 9:13pm |
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I don't think Fireflies were the first to use gate starts, but certainly they were used in the late 60's for the nationals.
They tend to skew the results - everyone was busy counting their finishing place, if it was 10, then one would slow up to be 11th - no-one wanted to be pathfinder! Colin
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Rupert
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Posted: 28 Sep 17 at 9:25pm |
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Pretty sure they were using them earlier than that, but it wouldn't surprise me that the N12 class would have got there first.
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GarethT
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Posted: 29 Sep 17 at 7:44am |
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The kids regularly use them to set up tuning runs
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