Another PY question..(pumping content)

If it became widespread  .. then many more would naturally migrate to the leadmines a lot earlier or even skip out dinghies completely in the first place ... Not to mention all those non sailing alternatives ... . 

Dinghy sailing simply does not help itself sometimes ... or perhaps it does not have the necessary imagination or leadership to consider "what could possibly go wrong"..... 


Edited by Cirrus - 18 Dec 17 at 5:20pm

Originally posted by Rupert Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by Rupert A2Z, hiking balances the wind, pumping creates artificial wind. There is a difference. Now who's being naive? Why?

I strongly disagree that vigorous 'hiking' is not exactly the same as pumping, it's just harder work. I've seen it, sailed against the buggers off the line, hiking at the gun then again and again as countless 'gusts' appear to 'unbalance' the boat to leeward causing them to have to hike back out harder, then again and again and again.

Edited by iGRF - 18 Dec 17 at 6:20pm

Try hiking or pumping a Finn - the hiking bit upwind is now the rest period and the downwind is way harder

I guess its helped attract younger sailors but has resulted in 'them and us' races when the pumping flag is up

Not sure that it makes the class any more attractive overall ?. The OKs don't need it

Totally agree E.J
I consider myself a decent s/h sailor and I’ll be honest I do and always have done all the kinetics I want to / am capable of within the propulsion rules, ie if it were “switched off” it wouldn’t change how I sailed.
Only exception might be mirror flat light air, and perhaps to a small extent in a centre main boat.
Singlehanded hiking boat sailing is already brutally physical in any wind - if you don’t think it is you aren’t doing it right and perhaps getting away with perching on the side of a class that has a low standard of sailing or lenient py (venn diagram perhaps?)
Allowing free pumping will not change a classes performance, in my opinion.
This isn’t a windsurfer rig where you have 4 degrees of freedom rather than one.

Originally posted by E.J. What pumping has done is make broad reaches /runs much more interesting and dynamic than just set and go.