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this is slightly out of control

2K views 8 replies 8 participants last post by  TrueBlue 
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#4 · (Edited)
If you spend any time at all flying a spinnaker in a good breeze, you're likely to end up in this situation a time or two.

Really just a routine round-up, actually. Broaching to leeward and stuffing the pole into the ocean is a much more dangerous scenario.

But broaching in any manner in such confined waters would be nerve-racking.
 
#6 ·
Okay, maybe they were showboating when they tried to enter the harbor (?) with the kite up, and got a big puff/squall.

That said, they let the sheet and guy go, rounded up ("controlled" broach) without dipping the end of the boom in the water, and probably recovered, or we would've seen yet more video.

Spinnakers are like common stock, as opposed to blue-chip--big reward, but big risk too. More interesting for us spectators, innit?
 
#8 ·
The issue isn't really WHAT happens so much as WHERE it happens. It is hard to say what is further up in the channel they are sailing in, but it should have been pretty obvious that they were going to get some wind shifts sailing in the lee of those buildings.
 
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