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Melbourne, Australia | If it's blowing like stink, and you're on a Hobie 16, it doesn't matter. Start wherever you want, and double trap out. The big boats will be too busy trying to stay upright to bother you.
F18, Tornado or A class would not be an issue in 25 knots punching off the line. | | | Re: Mixed fleet - pointing ability - who gives way
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Looking for a Job, I got credi... | If it's blowing like stink, and you're on a Hobie 16, it doesn't matter. Start wherever you want, and double trap out. The big boats will be too busy trying to stay upright to bother you. Can I line up under you in the next start?  Me too please.
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Hobart, Tasmania, Oz. | I don't know about that... we sailed the 5.8 in a regatta with a fleet of H16's. They started 5 mins before us so we had to sail though them to get to the first mark. The H16 has a lot of sail area for a 16 footer so it creates a huge wind shadow. Sailing underneath them is not that easy, especially when there is three or four in a row.
Sailing below a H16 is like arguing with an idiot... They just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience!
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Clinton, Mississippi | Sailing below a H16 is like arguing with an idiot... They just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience! Now that's funny!
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| If you're sailing a N5.8 and start 5 minutes after H16s on a normal course, and you have to worry about passing them on the way to the weather mark, then you're sailing with a bunch of 16 sailors with the same skill level I was describing on big boats in my earlier post...
Not that it helps to know that. You still have to get through the picket fence of reaching boats...
Mike
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