MitchB posted this in the oz nationals thread, i think he meant it to be here, but all those jack daniels and coke andi was feeding him at easter must be slowing him down :>
I remember seeing most of the 1-up guys trapping at some point!
Trapping all the time would be Gary, and yes he is a regular poster. SimonP also likes to trap downwind (except when he is feeling 'tired' and doesn't realise people are watching) and he posts fairly regularly!
I used to be of the opinion that the gains downwind just weren't great enough to trap downwind when solo, but Gary certainly showed that they are. On the long distance race we did i hiked initially at about 14.2 knots (but got tired of that
) so i got on the wire and was doing 15knots and higher which actually got me closer to the next mark.
Everyone who said gybing is messy is right though, although gary made it look less messy than most. It's just one of those things i am going to have to practice lots.
