Sail steering when planning

Yes

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Nubie said..

Imax1 said..
Yes

did you try it?

I use this technique when I'm totally overpowered and knackered going deep downwind getting back to shore in shallow water waiting for the fin to hit the sand . I've done this a few times lately.

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Imax1 said..

Nubie said..

Imax1 said..
Yes

did you try it?

I use this technique when I'm totally overpowered and knackered going deep downwind getting back to shore in shallow water waiting for the fin to hit the sand . I've done this a few times lately.

I sail like this all the time!
Every bigger gust that coming I unhook,scare of catapult! :)

But what were you planning?

But seriously, you can try pulling the mast back towards your body by pulling with front arm to depower while being hooked in, thats if you are afraid to stand tall (go over the board a little) to let the gust by.

Isn't this how you initiate a catapult?

Yes, and you need to open your sail, you may slow down.

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Nubie said..
If I unhook when planning in footstraps and move sail forward while keep my body weght at same longitudinal position, will board bear off?
Did someone try do this?

It will bear away - but why would you do that?
If you over do it the nose of the board will go down and the rig will overload, so you will probably catapult around the front.

If you want to steer in a straight line when planing we do this with very subtle rig movements and also by foot steering the board.
If you unhook and put the rig forward whilst leaning forwards onto the inner rail then you start a carve gybe.


Note that planing is spelt with one 'n' as it's short for 'aquaplaning'.

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hoop said..
Unfortunately this move is very difficult for people that don't have torso's .

So much better than sailing down a flat purpose built canal.

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LeeD said..
Some sailors learn the forward loop before they can jibe.

This is complete BS. The skill / expertise for looping, is higher than for gybing. And the conditions needed for looping, require significantly more skill then is for gybing.

Why is it that you make statements that are false, more then 95% of the time ?

Mathew, I know a sailor who has sailed Backyards and the channel outside of Diamond head who has never tried to uphaul ever.
And one of them regularly windsurfe from Kahala to view Molokai 20 miles away, and he cannot jibe at all, but jumpjibes fine.
- You just haven't seen that many sailors in your life.
Another guy I know did a quad flip duckie before he ever made a regular jibe. He started ducking only within 3 days of his 1st time ever on a windsurf board. Needless to say, he progressed to double ducks, then triples by his second year.

Yes but flat water levels the playing field somewhat. Gybes are easy, looping is harder. ( Not that I've ever intentionally looped a sailboard. As a young gun I looped on a trampoline, got it all out of my system by the time I became an ageing windsurfer.)

www.windsurf.co.uk/peter-hart-operation-rotation/

Joey Valera made his 1st triple at Half Moon Bay on his first windsurf board, within 9 months of his very first day. 9'6" Seatrend poly, maybe 90 liters....very thin tail.
Rewarded himself with the new then Sunset.
His quad was at Lake Lopez maybe 6 months later.
He could only duckjibe at Jalama.

Just because YOU didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen.