mmm, with your gybing, you have to be going as fast as you can, this eases the pressure on the sail, so if you can gybe when you are surfing a wave it is even better & you have to be sailin by the lee a bit, but the main thing is bein ddw & goin as fast as you can, but be careful not to get the...
you need a steel tube (make it whatever diameter you want) you also need something (such as mylar laminate material & make sure its glossy) to cover the steel tube (it has to be a tight fit & be longer than the length of the tiller extension) & stop it from getting resin on the steel tube...
mmm, i have found that at about 60kg i was just getting powered up in over 12 knots, could control it pretty easy in 30-40, started sailin the full rig in under 12 knots for a while, was fully powered up in 8-10, on sunday, i killed the full rig sail after it had survived for 26 odd years...
all ratchets are basically free wheel when they fail... I guess it will free wheel. I could see me using the auto ratchet because downwind, you dont really need a ratchet. when i was sailing my sabot, i had the smaller ronstan smart ratchet & it worked awesome, best thing on that boat.
mm, they pass no where near us aussies, you can't see them from land, they stick as far south as they can, now if we could just get into on of the RAAF Orions that wil be flying down there to check on the boats, then we'd be able to see 'em but i think it would be hard for us to get on an orion...
ye, they should race down here in aus, where there is wind, the place they are sailing at has an average wind speed of 8 knots, this includes hurricanes & those kinda storms.
ohh & nick moloney on skandia (he is aussie) is coming 6th in the vendee globe YEA.
mmm, i think they are like AU$500+, dont waste your money either, go for the Stormy Seas one, the marine board of vic did a test on all of them & they found that the Stormy Seas ones were waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the others in terms of safety & everythin. dont buy one that isn't a PFD type 1...
i weigh 60kg, i go well in about 5-8 knots in the full rig, thats when i can keep up with a tasar & 470, above that i start getting overpowered, but it is fun when i go downwind. it is hard work for me in 15 knots with the full rig.
you know just to piss em all off, you should file lots & lots of incidents, wonder how long it'll take em to realise that they have totally f****d up. man, it would be hell for them if they brought those regs in down under, just imagine, on the startline of a sabot nationals, where they get 72+...
hey chris, our november issues come out on the 20th of november lol, i was only stirin ya all, bloody hell, actually mac, boat shows are near the end of our sailing season.
mac- I think you are wrong about the restrictiveness, if I could afford an inflatable one cause they are PFD1's & are better than the PFD2's when its deflated, it is a great lifejacket because it also has a harness thing for offshore sailing (the one my mate has) so you can use it offshore as...
is aus, the people at the marine boards are bringing in a rule, where everyone on boats without life lines, iirc, have to wear a PFD type 1 (ones with the neck thing) when not racing & we will have to wear PFD type 2's when racing, this sucks cause the PFD1's are the shitest lifejackets, i bet i...
yep, go as fast as you can, decide whether you are going to go high or low in the first half of the reach leg, don't go along the rumb line. get up on a plane as fast as you can.
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