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      getmwaqar
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      While I’m on the forum…

       

      How do other people deal with shifty, patchy and gusty conditions in a GP?

       

      If there is a sudden header, presumably you hike hard and bear away to reattach the flow to the sails before tacking.

      If there is a lift, do you get your crew to crack off the jib slightly and point up gradually, or do you just roll the boat away from you to take you up to close hauled straight away?

       

       

      If you get hit by a gust and aren’t able to keep flat by simply hiking harder, do you ease the main, or point up and feather the boat to keep it flat? Does this change depending on whether you are on the sea or on a loch? And do you dive for the kicker and the outhaul as soon as you are hit by the gust, or do you do “damage control” to get the boat flat again before changing sail settings?

       

       

       

      In patchy conditions, what do you do when you hit a lull? Do you keep sailing to the telltales? Do you get the crew to crack off the jib slightly to keep trucking until the next bit of pressure, and if so, by how much? Do you avoid tacking in lulls? And tactics-wise, would you tend to follow the shifts more, or go for pressure?

       

       

      Thanks in advance for the advice!

       

      Peter

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