That would make more sense. The original phrase is sloppy and ambiguous nevertheless.I thought it meant putting the toes of your boots under the leeward grabrail
That would make more sense. The original phrase is sloppy and ambiguous nevertheless.
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The text doesn't explicitly make that comparison, but I assume it's that you get a more solid contact to the boat through the rail than the strap, which always has some lateral play. It makes sense in conditions when you're not fully hiking, and your feet are close to the leeward rail anyway. "Powerful" in this context wouldn't mean "far to windward".The article claims that by hiking under the grab rail you get "a really powerful hike", that is a hike more powerful than a regular one under the hiking strap.
I thought it meant putting the toes of your boots under the leeward grabrail and force the boat to roll?
So, you move your aft foot over the strap and under the forward end of the leeward rail? Did I get it right?I put my back for into the far left or far right (far left from port to starboard and far right from starboard to port) corner of the cockpit (under the rail)
I am 6ft 2 and when I tack I put my back for into the far left or far right (far left from port to starboard and far right from starboard to port) corner of the cockpit (under the rail)
Test-day today: "...it only works when you're 6ft or taller. If you're smaller, you have to reach for the rail with your toes, then your body tends to come back into the cockpit compromising a smooth tack."
I don't sail a Laser myself (only larger wooden keel boats...) so I have to take the boys' words for it.
I am 1.93m (6' 5'') and can easily put my toes under the rail. It also feels sort of secure that you can pull yourself into the boat by your toes.
2) you'd have to come in from a hiking position for your feet to reach the leeward rail, at which stage you should already be heeling to windward when going into a tack, and
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(... and - I'm drifting away here- Argentina is one of the countries I would like to visit: Near the tropics in the North, nearly with your feet on the South Pole in the south! Brilliant)
Yes. That's what I suspected beforehand, and it was pretty clear out on the water today as well. It would be an extra, useless thing to do.So you feel this could only work in non-hiking conditions?
Yes, but very briefly (about one second!), and he actually seems to wedge the whole boot between the rail and the floor, so he's not really "hiking". And of course, it's nowhere near hiking conditions.I think Steve Cockerill is hiking under the grab rail here