Top advice ever given
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Topic: Top advice ever given
Posted By: tink
Subject: Top advice ever given
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 7:51pm
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Lots of doooooom and glooooom on this rather active and interesting forum so Best bit of advice you have ever been given, probably better sailing related Will start with two (from the same person at different clubs and a few years apart)
------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
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Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 8:14pm
| Don’t bear away (in strong breeze) until there’s a wave to bear away with |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 8:23pm
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Duck. ------------- Robert |
Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 8:39pm
Always go to avoid ducks, especially when you can see their legs. ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Sam.Spoons
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 8:48pm
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And even more important when you can see their 'Parsons Nose' ------------- Spice 346 "Flat Broke" Blaze 671 "supersonic soap dish" |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 8:56pm
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Keep out th'oss road and watch fo't trams ------------- Robert |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 8:57pm
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Don't eat that yellow snow. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 9:01pm
 ------------- Robert |
Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 09 Nov 19 at 11:35pm
| An experienced Contender helm I knew used to sail around shouting "more kicker" at people, at the time I thought he was messing with our minds but now I think he was probably giving good advice. |
Posted By: ian.r.mcdonald
Date Posted: 10 Nov 19 at 6:22pm
Having squeezed under a few Contender booms myself , he was probably jealous of anyone with enough space! |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 10 Nov 19 at 6:31pm
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Sell it for more than you pay for it.
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Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 10 Nov 19 at 7:01pm
Never quite managed to do that ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Oinks
Date Posted: 10 Nov 19 at 7:19pm
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"Buy an RS400...you won't regret it". Less class specific..."It's never as a bad as [flogging sails] it sounds waiting to launch". And... "If you aren't OCS once in a while, you're not trying hard enough" I'm not too sure about this one "Demand your rights in the loudest voice possible...most people just get out of the way". That was my Dad...it was the way things worked in our house!
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Posted By: Oatsandbeans
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 12:00pm
| I was told by a good sailor that when gybing ( they were talking about a RS200), the trick was "not to let the main out).At the time I didn't get it at all, and went off on my merry way and kept falling in on gybes. Only when I had made some progress ( and done lots of swimming) did I realise what they meant by the " don't let the main out". They had worked out that if they gybe with the main in they didn't capsize, but when they did let the main out they did capsize. I now understand why. If you keep your boat speed up through the gybe the apparent wind stays forward and the main can be kept in. If you lose boat speed through the gybe, the apparent wind goes behind and the rig loads up. You then have to dump the main, then the gybe then becomes tricky quite quickly. So it wasn't the act of keeping the main in that was the trick it was keeping the boat speed up that allowed you to keep the main in. |
Posted By: ian.r.mcdonald
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 5:24pm
| Dont start thinking about what could go wrong when going into a high wind gybe- because it will |
Posted By: Oatsandbeans
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 6:43pm
| I agree the best ones just seem to happen without trying too much |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 6:58pm
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Best capsizes, too. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 8:24pm
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Don't go racing flat out into shallow waters. ------------- Robert |
Posted By: Sam.Spoons
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 8:28pm
 ------------- Spice 346 "Flat Broke" Blaze 671 "supersonic soap dish" |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 11 Nov 19 at 8:58pm
Cherub  with dagger board pushed below floor level ------------- Robert |
Posted By: ohFFsake
Date Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 8:41am
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"If you are sailing in the wrong direction, the last thing you need is a fast boat" also "Good boat speed makes you a tactical genius" |
Posted By: fudheid
Date Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 8:46am
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flat is fast ------------- Cheers you only me from over the sea...... |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 10:31am
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Never be without a pencil. ------------- Robert |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 18 Nov 19 at 12:36pm
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When sailing at Grafham.. 'Go right....until it is time to go left' ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |