Underhand tactics

Whilst everyone would like to believe that all sailors are all rule abiding for the entire race, there comes a time in every sailor’s career when they feel the need to go beyond the rules to get some kind of advantage.

What tricks have you done or seen done that have impressed you without the committee or jury noticing or taking action?

I have to admit that I often find myself deliberately letting go of the tiller just before the start to give the impression of not being in total control of the boat!  It’s amazing how much room you get to windward at the start line!

The most audacious move that I have seen is that a boat capsized just before a gybe mark, drifted downwind a bit and headed off to the leeward mark without rounding the gybe mark.  They got away with it too, lucky 's!!!

The idea of this thread is to give us all light amusement (instead of position of the fortnight, try manoeuvre of the week), but also give us something to look out for people doing on the racecourse…