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Old 04-29-2008
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Flying an Assym chute by the lee.

Sunday we had light air and had trouble keeping the chute full on the leeward side. Quite by accident, we got it to fill and pull on the windward side. We were sailing about 150* or so on a broad reach and put the Staysail up once the chute was stable for extra umph. We held that tack for more then two hours with dolphins chasing and playing with us. Must've been 30 - 40 of them out there, unusual. Later we turned upwind, sheeted in hard and flew the chute to within 50* of apparent like a giant Genoa. It was cool considering I still haven't replaced the 150 I blew up. We flew four sail offwind and thought about five but I was too lazy.



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