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WestCoast said:the first in the laser, I was pumped, but it was breezy.
So I'm nervous. Gusting to 20kts, maybe 22kts. I'm 130lbs in the full rig.
Upwind, I'm doing ok, hiking as hard as I can, vang on way tight, near the back, but feeling ok, first regatta in tthe boat.
Getting to the windward mark, I'd never really known how the boat wanted to be set up in breeze, I so figure, leave vang on, keep board down most of the way........
Turn the corner, boat is so loaded up, try to hike it flat around, boat starts to round up, I loose it, tiller extension in face, sort of get it back, boat takes off, I'm holding on. All confused why the boat is so power and squirly.
Get... I dunno, maybe 3 lengths from the mark, I'm reach into to ease controls, not hiking, puff on.
I blink
I'm in the water, holding the bow of the boat with my arms, kinda of stunned and confused. How the heck did I get up here?
What direction is my boat facing? Mast still in one piece?
Ok.
Get back on, 'come on George, get it together, this isn't rocket science'
Now I'm cold, a little mad at myself, trying to be conservative nad not hiking hard at all. Puff on, board down, vang cranked on still, ...ooooofh, up and over.
I remember the end of the day, in the parking lot looking at my bent top section saying what a stupid boat this is, this thing is dangerous!
Years later, here I am, still in love with the first boat that almost tried to kill me downwind. When big air comes in, and I'm in the full rig (same weight to this day) I still think about that in the back of my head, and try to have it motivate me to go faster.
Skipper Johnson said:Gday
Can you tell when the wind is blowing how the vang should be set for control please?
tino said:Then I tried to climb in from luv side without success.
how do you guys get into the boat without capsizing the boat again to luvwards?At the end I climbed in from the back but felt very poor to do so.Is there any trick to get in quickly from the side or is there no chance?
tino said:when I read all your capsize it seems all of you know perfectly to get into the boat again. here my question as a beginnerer.
I got hit by a gust and a shift and started to deathroll. I got the boat up quickly again before i could step in via centerboard.
Then I tried to climb in from luv side without success.
how do you guys get into the boat without capsizing the boat again to luvwards?At the end I climbed in from the back but felt very poor to do so.Is there any trick to get in quickly from the side or is there no chance?
tino said:thanks for the tips to you all!
its clear to step in from the windwardside and hold the mainsheet thight to get in,but I realised that the boat starts immediatly to head into the wind but next time I will try to get more off the wind to have a close reach position, hold the tiller extension in one hand and then start to crawl in, is that maybe correct?smile
regards
tino
crazysailor said:I was sailing in a club 420 2 years ago, it started to rain and i mean rain ALOT!!! for those who don't know vanguard 420's are very very tippy so when the wind caught us (my partner and i) could do nothing but accept the capsize, since niether of us had a trap harness. so we are in the water and we point the boat into irons you know run through the basics, but we could not get the boat righted. our instructer was nearby ina motor boat and he comes to help our friendjumped into the water from the motor boat and helped us right the boat. we got it righted but my partner didn't un cleat the main sheet(i don't know why he had it cleated in the first place) so the boat capsized immediatly. we finally get it righted and inside and all the lines are tangled so we start working on them, but my partner lets go of the tiller and we begin to gybe in 25+ knots of wind, i notice this and tried my best to stop the boom from swinging across and hitting my partner but that was impossible, i yell "Heads up!!" as the boom snaps across and hits my partner in the head, in doing so the boat capsizes once again he immerges from the water consiouse and screaming he swims over to our instructor in the boat screaming "MOMMY MOMMY SAVE ME!!" my instructor takes my partner in the the motor boat onto land and i am left in the middle of a lake all alone, can't see land because it's raining so hard, i'm standing on the gunnels of my turtled 420, until finally what felt like an eternity later another instructor boat comes with the head of the sailing school and another man in it. the head instructor jumps into the water and we right the boat, he drops the sail and the man in the motor boat pulls us into the docks.
that was the most exillerating moment of my life.
Crazysailor
Hekaleka said:Here is a few nice crashes...
http://www.saillaser.fi/hurjasteluamurciassa2005.wmv