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As far as spinnaker boats not being able to head up in a windward leeward situation, the answer is tough luck. You need to head up and if that causes you to flip then flip you must.




And that sir, is the most assholish attitude I could possibly encounter on the race course.

Rounding someone up into the wind on the start line, ok, big deal, but heading up someone so high that they HAVE to capsize in order to avoid contact is grounds for an assbeating. People can get hurt on a capsize, gear can break, and purposely causing one of these situations to occur goes beyond the scope of competitive sportsmanship, into the area known as a "dickhead maneuver".

My two cents.



So if someone would cause you to follow the rules you want to give him an "assbeating". Makes me want to race!!!! Just make sure when you open that can of whupass that its big enough.

Clayton


I also have a problem with the whole capsizing because you have to head up thing. Blow the chute. The whole heading down thing is to stay powered up, moving fast, and hauling butt, and saving yourself while doing that. I think we very often forget that a viable option in a lot of cases is to simply free the sheets, slow down, and maneuver. I've seen an incident or two where the boats couldn't maneuver properly to avoid because they forgot they needed to adjust the sail trim to help steer. I've seen powerboats be guilty of the same thing - threading through a bunch of sailboats when all they had to do was cut power to let the other boats go by.

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