mee168 said:Can I asked a question? Are sailors usually aggressive at the start line? I know you gotta be aggressive to get a good start.
But do they go to the extend of getting vulgar/ill-mannered; if for example, someone's boat accidentally/uncontrollably knock into someone infront and that person got so angry that he shouted foul words at the other guy?
It can be pretty un-sportsman if such thing happened. Just checking out with you people.... :0
mee168 said:Can I asked a question? Are sailors usually aggressive at the start line? I know you gotta be aggressive to get a good start.
But do they go to the extend of getting vulgar/ill-mannered; if for example, someone's boat accidentally/uncontrollably knock into someone infront and that person got so angry that he shouted foul words at the other guy?
It can be pretty un-sportsman if such thing happened. Just checking out with you people.... :0
This IS interesting. There is so much to learn about starting well. In my first races since I was a teenager, last summer, I was getting lousy starts because I was the guy who didn't want to piss anyone off. That gets old after a few and I decided I would jump in and try to get a good one. I thought I timed one perfectly - everyone was luffing behind the line, with the college hotshot at the starboard end maybe 15 feet or more from the c boat. I was zipping along on a nice reach from the east, around the back of the c boat, saw this nice hole, and thought HA! I'm going right in there right as the gun goes off! I'll be a genious! But Hotshot yells, Don't go in there! DON'T DO it!! I figured I was barging and he knew the rules a lot better than I, so I veered off, went around the back of him, gun goes off, I'm in the second row as usual.RobKoci said:Having said all that, the question was regarding the start line in particular. I was at the Masters Midwinters and looking for a pin start. I had the line, and was about to score the start of my life when Peter Seidenburg came up on port and tacked just under me to fit between me and the pin. I could squeezed him out and forced him to hit the mark, but I gave him the room he needed and he lee bowed me and I got rolled from above and sank back to my traditional place in the midfleet. Sometimes I wish I was a little more agressive. In hingsight I should have yelled at him to get the hell out of there. But, you know, the Laser fleet in the Masters catagory is a pretty civil culture, and we are all on holiday or retired, and really, is it worth it after all?
MasterMike said:BTW, I was once in a race on a big boat on Puget Sound with a total jerk owner/captain He screamed and swore at everyone out there, guests, and the people who worked for him.
MasterMike said:I decided I would jump in and try to get a good one. I thought I timed one perfectly - everyone was luffing behind the line, with the college hotshot at the starboard end maybe 15 feet or more from the c boat. I was zipping along on a nice reach from the east, around the back of the c boat, saw this nice hole, and thought HA! I'm going right in there right as the gun goes off! I'll be a genious! But Hotshot yells, Don't go in there! DON'T DO it!! I figured I was barging and he knew the rules a lot better than I, so I veered off, went around the back of him, gun goes off, I'm in the second row as usual.
So, maybe it was too tight and I WAS barging. But, the aggressiveness worked well for him and I didn't get a chance to challenge him in at least one race - he made sure of that.
Wavedancer said:
PS2: We have drifted off topic....