Tub-O-Lard
New Member
Ok, so we finally had super awesome winds at my club (Jericho, Vancouver) and it was blowing between 15 and 20 knots all day.
I found beating to be really challenging, and could barely keep the boat flat, and had to constantly pinch - often to the point of bubbling the luff.
I know my sail was overpowered for the conditions, but how do you guys find sailing in this kind of wind?
And how do you deal with the waves that form which are very close together? I tried shifting my wieght around, but the waves are too close for that, and I kept smashing into waves, or my boat just fell and crashed into troughs.
The reaching was FUN, SO MUCH FUN. There was so much spray and surfing down waves is so fast. I also drove right into a wave that was infront of me at full speed and completely buried the front half of the boat underwater and filled the cockpit with water (I think its about as close as a laser can get to pitch-poling)
Starting to ramble now...
I found beating to be really challenging, and could barely keep the boat flat, and had to constantly pinch - often to the point of bubbling the luff.
I know my sail was overpowered for the conditions, but how do you guys find sailing in this kind of wind?
And how do you deal with the waves that form which are very close together? I tried shifting my wieght around, but the waves are too close for that, and I kept smashing into waves, or my boat just fell and crashed into troughs.
The reaching was FUN, SO MUCH FUN. There was so much spray and surfing down waves is so fast. I also drove right into a wave that was infront of me at full speed and completely buried the front half of the boat underwater and filled the cockpit with water (I think its about as close as a laser can get to pitch-poling)
Starting to ramble now...