started racing radials in high school at around 125lbs, about 150lbs now. dry flipping is the way to go, when the boat goes over climb over the top of the hull instead of swimming to the daggerboard. its way faster and easier, all your weight ends up being on the dagger board instead of in the water. You can also easily dry flip a death roll, just have to feel it coming and be quick about it but that comes with experience.
for being overpowered upwind, you want more vang and cunningham. main close to all the way in, not necessarily block to block ease in the puffs trim in the lulls. pinching alright if you cant keep it flat
Or ease mainsheet and point lower. This gives more forward vector and less sideways vector (less healing moment)what point of sail? if up wind pinch higher
That should read heeling momentOr ease mainsheet and point lower. This gives more forward vector and less sideways vector (less healing moment)
Vang & cunno was literally on as far as i could physically pull it.
Still couldn't depower the boat enough to actually be able to sail it
I have found when the boat is capsized in breeze you have to let the vang off to get the boat back up. A super vanged sail is like a board in the water and the wind can't get out of it. This was not a problem with the old vang.
First time i think that was my mistake. Subsequent sails though flicking the vang off when capsizing hasn't helped
I appreciate everyone's help. Unfortunately my husband is just as sick of the boat as i am so we are selling it
No idea what im getting instead (if anything), but its obvious that a laser is not the right boat.
I just do not have the time to put into my fitness or my sailing in order to actually be able to sail the boat (& not just swim).
It sounds very much like you guys have it backwards. You should steer higher into the wind exactly in order to NOT have to "fight the boat". Think of steering so high that the sail flaps completely: you definitely won't heel to leeward or have any weather helm then! Somewhere between that and what you've been doing is a happy medium where the boat heels just enough to keep your body out of the water most of the time. You don't even have to look at the sail, just adjust the rudder and the sheet so that the boat stays flat and moving.i know how to pinch upwind.
I spent the entire time fighting the boat so much that i couldn't even do that effectively.
Honestly my husband has the same problem (fighting the boat) when he sails it too, & hes a lot stronger than me - the weather helm is just ridiculous. Neither of us have ever sailed a boat with so much weather helm.
Not a class in AustraliaIf you're still inclined to do the single handed dingy thing try a Sunfish out.
Yes an no. In flat water this works. In choppy water, particularly where Sailor Girl is, you need to go low and feather the sail.I'm quoting from the other thread as it's about the sailing:It sounds very much like you guys have it backwards. You should steer higher into the wind exactly in order to NOT have to "fight the boat". Think of steering so high that the sail flaps completely: you definitely won't heel to leeward or have any weather helm then! Somewhere between that and what you've been doing is a happy medium where the boat heels just enough to keep your body out of the water most of the time. You don't even have to look at the sail, just adjust the rudder and the sheet so that the boat stays flat and moving.
That's included in "adjust the rudder and the sheet so that the boat stays flat and moving"In choppy water, particularly where Sailor Girl is, you need to go low and feather the sail.