Why trap with kite downwind?

We are quite a big crew by tornado standards and we also find we need to keep the weight quite far forward. Make sure you keep an eye on the fore aft trim and get the crew to adjust to suit.

with my bulk stuck on the tramp, in most conditions dan is still in front of the rear beam. A lot of the time he is trapezing about where I trapeze going upwind...

Note to self, must continue the weight reduction program, anybody want a spare leg?????

Dermot

(Thanks for e-mail - got the sad news by sms last night)

I'm only all the way back in a hooley. It's all about watching the bow and choosing your position accordingly. Anyway what's your position on all this? At last year's inland I think I was the only one wiring downwind and t'other Dermot in his Tiger was advocating staying inboard.

I think I am becoming half chameleon. I can now rotate my eyes independently and watch lee bow and mainsail at the same time!

The wind at the Inlands in Blesso last year was quite gusty and a bit shifty. I found myself on the wrong side a few times

I remember at the 2005 Spitfire Europeans, Jonathan Loday was helming and trapezed downwind in everything but the lightest winds. Most of the others stayed in. It started me thinking. I think that it depends on conditions. I have done very well, staying in sometimes, and other times trapezing.