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    Posted: 26 May 06 at 7:09pm
or they just don't want to get tangled up with you up the beat....and if you want to go to one side of the course you might want to just let the port-tack boat go, also remember that tacking's slow and you don't want to do too many....we used to do it all the time in oppies, oh the good old days!
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yeah exactly thanks.

or they dont want someone sitting underneath them lee bowing them or whatever.


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they want to make you go to the un-favoured side of the course, maybe there is more ide there or the wind is heading you on port or something, they let you cross because they know they will catch up.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Calum_Reid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 May 06 at 6:18pm
Originally posted by MRJP BUZZ 585

i was racing on wednesday and a laser asked if i would give him right of way even tho he was on port and i was on starboard we were both racingbloomin cheek


Sometimes it can be too your advantage (as a stb bot) to give a port boat right of way. Cant think of an obvious situation off hand but i know of plenty of times where ive been told by a stb boat to hold my course and they've slowed to let me cross.
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remember....you can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led
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Originally posted by Harry44981!

Makes sense completely L4.7. With the vast quantities of Laser sailors your gonna get a lot of pillocks, but also a lot of nice people.


Well observed, laser sailors are not the only ones who get on others nerves, theres just a lot more of em to do it.
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Makes sense completely L4.7. With the vast quantities of Laser sailors your gonna get a lot of pillocks, but also a lot of nice people.

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i was racing on wednesday and a laser asked if i would give him right of way even tho he was on port and i was on starboard

we were both racing

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i've found the majority of laser squad people are funny when you get to know them

the only laser sailors i know who leave boats and trollies in the way of other people are the really self oppinionated ones who think that they're the greatest and everyone should bow down to them (or pull their boat around theirs etc). leave lasers and their sailors alone please don't tarnish us all with the same brush just because we belong to a particullar SMOD class which happens to have some pr*cks in it who forget that there are other people

 

 

.....does that make any sense or am i waffling

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Post Options Post Options   Quote 29er397 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 May 06 at 2:41pm

Originally posted by Calum_Reid

haha hang arround in gangs. Id be lucky im not a squady so no other laser sailor in Scotland my age will talk to me. wait thats not nessessarily a bad thing. I want to go back to sailing the 400 proper adults class.

I kinda got that when i sailed the laser on the scottish circuit. The 29er and 420 squadies are a great laugh though

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