Sorry, forgot the ftfy and of course not entirely true, I'm just trying to unscrabble your collective reasoning, you seem to have me tied to the ludicrous suggestion that just pinching so high you stall and then sitting there will work which clearly it doesn't.

There's a mile of difference between that and tidal assistance, which, on sailboards here locally can make the difference between planing on one tack, then not planing on the other at the extreme, to travelling at faster displacement speed toward the mark if the tide is on the nose at the other. On a board, you can quite literally feel the effect, you can feel it varying up the beat as you cross the tide or as it does here locally moves in a curve over the course. So with the benefit of knowing for a fact it works then transfering that knowledge into a dinghy in which the 'feel' is duller but nonetheless the action still works.

Then you come on forums and you're still being fed the same old same old, I've told the tale before I'll tell it again, last time I argued the point with the RYA national coach nonetheless, some months later I went on to take a 10 minute lead over his entire Olympic Squad because he fed them the same drivel he'd been fed by the RYA squad system in his youth and sent his squad up the coast.

As I said before believe what you want to believe, I'm available for tidal lectures... ;-)

Originally posted by mozzy   Why don't you explain how it works? Specifically, how does pointing slightly higher change the flow on the foils, even in the range where you're not stalling?

Originally posted by iGRF Then you come on forums and you're still being fed the same old same old, I've told the tale before I'll tell it again, last time I argued the point with the RYA national coach nonetheless, some months later I went on to take a 10 minute lead over his entire Olympic Squad because he fed them the same drivel he'd been fed by the RYA squad system in his youth and sent his squad up the coast.

Coach Ben Oakley,

Class Mistral One Design

Venue
Dale National Championships, long distance race across the bay.

Can't remember when, last time I entered a Nationals was 1999, might have been the year before 98.

OK, I think we should take this elsewhere, it's time for your tide quiz.

I shall start a new thread and you can all enlighten me.