Nope. It has many advantages:laser98706 said:why sail by the lee? isnt that slow?
james17 said:[...] but remeber sailing by the lee is alot slowe than a good reach.
no it doesnt! the rules says one pump per wave! and as long as you keep it to that your fine! anyway we like to call it working the boat and see how long we can get away with it for!cayenne24 said:in response to teeftie. While not initiating surfing sheeting in and out breaks rule 42. Doing it slowly may only keep you from getting noticed.
I made an interesting observation yesterday when I was out practicing after a race. In medium waves I can transition from a "normal" broad-reach to BTL very smoothly, but the reverse was *much* harder. I think the reason is that the normal->BTL transition is just a continuation of the heel-the-boat-to-weather carving turn I do to accelerate down a wave. Normally, I stop the turn (and flatten the boat a bit) when I reach the bottom of the wave (and get ready to turn back up), but if you just let the boat keep turning "down" it very smoothly powers through over to the BTL broad-reach.GeoffS said:I've been having trouble transitioning between broad-reaching with "normal" (mast->leech) flow and "reversed" (leech->mast aka BTL) flow.