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takokichi
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Initially Posted - 09/23/2004 : 14:33:23

Edited by - takokichi on 09/23/2004 14:34:48

Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 09/23/2004 : 15:15:27

I dissagree, your post was fine.

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 09/23/2004 : 15:46:40

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">So – the goal is sail better in light air w/o wiping out or destroying the boat in bigger air.

What would you do?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Your success in racing and sailing in light air has much less to do with your equipment than with your knowledge. If you know how to find the wind when others' are becalmed, and how to get your sails to fill when others' sails are slatting, and how to consistently find the fastest slant towards the destination when others are covering longer distances or travelling at slower speeds, and how to use your movable ballast to reduce your boat's wetted surface and increase your speed, and how to trim your sails to generate the maximum power and speed, and how to tack downwind, you can beat faster boats with bigger sails and better equipment. Also, get to know your boat and the characteristics that set it apart from other boats. For example, the C25 is distinguished from many other boats by being extra heavy. While that extra weight can work against you, it can also work in your favor. You can learn to minimize the disadvantages caused by its weight and maximize its benefits.

Knowledge is the one thing that distinguishes light air sailing from other sailing. Nobody is "born with an instinct for light air sailing." You have to know and use specific techniques.

Read the racing article that I posted on this site, which discusses alot of light air and downwind racing techniques, and read all the books that have been written on yacht racing by all the most talented racers of today and of the past. Unfortunately, most of them don't gather all their light air sailing techniques into one chapter. They scatter them throughout the whole book. Crew for someone who is a really good light air racer. Watch what he does, and ask questions. Pay attention to sail trim, distribution of crew weight, and helmsmanship. If he alters course or sails diagonally instead of straight down the course, ask why.