Crewing a Scorpion

   As in any boat with lots of ropes; talk through who will do what, try it and when it works stick to it.  
In the Javelin (basically a scorpion only bigger and trapeezier) our main irritant is the twinners, we always think the other person has / will do them and often sail half a reach with the wrong one pulled in.  Likewise who pulls the boom across when gybing and stuff like pulling the board down, pulling on some cunningham etc when rounding the bottom mark.  Once racing, there probably won't be much time to say "excuse me Emmy would you mind terribly much pulling the spinny pole back so as we can gybe in a moment".

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NickA Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 784	Post Options Post Reply Quote NickA Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Crewing a Scorpion Posted: 30 Jan 13 at 8:41pm
	As in any boat with lots of ropes; talk through who will do what, try it and when it works stick to it. In the Javelin (basically a scorpion only bigger and trapeezier) our main irritant is the twinners, we always think the other person has / will do them and often sail half a reach with the wrong one pulled in. Likewise who pulls the boom across when gybing and stuff like pulling the board down, pulling on some cunningham etc when rounding the bottom mark. Once racing, there probably won't be much time to say "excuse me Emmy would you mind terribly much pulling the spinny pole back so as we can gybe in a moment".
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