Sailing and Skiing

Stache

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From the Sailfish Rudder Conversion thread:
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Fiddle with the wingnut on the hull hardware. You want it tight enough that the blade will not pop up when sailing but loose enough to release if you ground or hit a stump. Sorta like downhill ski bindings: tight enough so you release in a bad fall but
not so loose that you come out of the bindings in normal skiing (been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.)

Alan Glos
Cazenovia, NY"

Was thinking to myself, the last time out in my Sunfish, the similarity between Sailing and Skiing.
Keeping your boat on the best point for catching the wind and still making a mark requires constant vigilance and adjustment of the sail and rudder. Keeping control in downhill skiing requires constant vigilance and adjustment of the direction and edging of your skiis.
PS: I am a PSIA Certified Ski Instructor at Killington, VT and I will be including this
Epiphany in my lessons next winter for any of my ski school students that are also sailors in the summer.
 
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