I think we should go back to having a reaching leg. My current crew sailed with me almost a year before we had our first good reaching leg in a race.
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<br>I never found the reaching to be a parade. There is always washing your crew off the boat, pitchpoling or sailing too high or low of a course .
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<br>A reach leg also gives some of the older boats a chance to show their stuff. Like a N6.0 when they are just double trapped or a Tornado when the I20's are traveled out to the footstraps.
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<br>If you want to reach come to GBCC on Nov 3&4. We will be sharing a starting line and leeward mark with the Tornado NA's. To help seperate the boats, the last plan I heard, was to run the GBCC boats on a ABC course. The Tornado's will always run AC<br><br>