 | | From: | Dan Weiss | | Subject: | Catapults | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:57:28 -0500 |
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 | Just my two cents on avoiding catapults into the sail. Hold onto your booms
really tight and follow them around the front by pulling in the clew. This
is not only a sail saver but helps reduce the number of mast hits on the
nose. Better to hit the board with your hip than with your boom head!
-Dan
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| | From: | Glenn Woodell | | Subject: | Re: Catapults | | Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:09:42 -0500 |
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| How about a suggesting for avoiding them completely? Just as you feel
yourself starting to get pulled forward, sheet in as hard and as fast
as you can and you will find that in almost all cases you will stall
the sail out and either recover fully or at worst case fall to leeward
very slowly on top of your sail. If you don't let go you will end up
in the push up position and can simply roll off to the side and never
touch your sail.
Glenn
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:57:28 -0500, "Dan Weiss"
wrote:
>Just my two cents on avoiding catapults into the sail. Hold onto your booms
>really tight and follow them around the front by pulling in the clew. This
>is not only a sail saver but helps reduce the number of mast hits on the
>nose. Better to hit the board with your hip than with your boom head!
>
>-Dan
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| | From: | Paul Braunbehrens | | Subject: | Re: Catapults | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:56:30 -0800 |
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| Holding on is definitely better than not holding on, but I've whacked
my knees on the mast a couple of times using this method.
In article , Dan Weiss
wrote:
> Just my two cents on avoiding catapults into the sail. Hold onto your booms
> really tight and follow them around the front by pulling in the clew. This
> is not only a sail saver but helps reduce the number of mast hits on the
> nose. Better to hit the board with your hip than with your boom head!
>
> -Dan
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