Media An instructional capsize recovery clip
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Merrily
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This takes 5 minutes to load, even with a cable modem. It shows a Laser being righted once, with a lot of instructions in Finnish.
Merrily said:
Is this a demo of the "California Roll" or, in Finnish, the "Eskimo roll"
?I just viewed the clip. Hmm.. I am thinking should the guy gives a push on the 'hanging' boom to bring the sail flat on the water first before he uprighted his laser?
But this guy is fast!!! The moment the boat rolled over him, he could dive under and emerge out at the other end and gave a grab at the edge to prevent the boat from rolling down on its other side.... Coolz...
But this guy is fast!!! The moment the boat rolled over him, he could dive under and emerge out at the other end and gave a grab at the edge to prevent the boat from rolling down on its other side.... Coolz...
computeroman2
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This takes 5 minutes to load, even with a cable modem.
minnetonkaHSsailing
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if you're going to go through the effort of getting that far onto the board, why not just stand up and slide in as it rights? and wouldn't it have been faster to pull that boom over? that underwater things sounds great until all of us who wear spray gear and not wetsuits realize how warm that's going to be afterward.
Hekaleka
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This roll ist better in high wind conditions. If you slide into the boat, the the wind that blows capsizes it again, so this "california roll" is much faster.
computeroman2
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minnetonkaHSsailing said:
exactly. That tecnique is usually only used in windward capsizes in high winds. as for wearing spraygear and not a wetsuit/drysuit.....That's a personal choice. If it's really that cold, I guess you can just do it the conventional way, can't you?
sailor327
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making the sail flat on the water rather than having it in the air when you go to right it helps it not roll over agin once you have it up.
Merrily
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sailor327 said:
Can you restate that in a different way?
JMU
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minnetonkaHSsailing said:
When you weigh close to 100kg like this quy, the boat is already upright before you get all the way up on the centerboard. In this clip he needed to get up that much because the boom was sticking up ackwardly and wind was resisting his effort. In normal situation a large sailor can almost just pull on the centerboard to do this "eskimo turn".
A world-class Laser sailor in our area taught me a better, much faster way to handle this death roll situation, particularly when your boom is sticking up in the air. Turtle the boat, and then keep it going to right it on the other side. Your mast will come up downwind of the boat, making righting easy. This technique is actually amazingly fast compared to the alternatives, even though intentionally turtling the boat is counter-intuitive.
David
David
sureley if you were that good you wouldn't have got to that situation in the first place; you'd know how to move in the boat and to push your tiller away and pull in the sail and use the roll to turn onto the lee where the boat dosen't roll so much or is it just a case of pushing it too hard?