1st attempted outing

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Re: 1st attempted outing

Postby tomodda » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:37 am

Hi Gary:

Glad to see that you're getting some urns in. Yeah, GreenLake's bungeee tiller tamer is the way to go - simple, works when you need it to, out of the way when you don't. Definitely sounds like you need a bigger lake though!

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Re: 1st attempted outing

Postby Fly4rfun » Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:17 pm

yeah barely get things set when it's time to change direction.
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Re: 1st attempted outing

Postby tomodda » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:52 pm

Don't feel bad - my local lake is a bit larger, maybe 1.5 mile across in the section where I sail, but the winds are so shifty that the effect is the same. I barely have myself all set with one wind direction/speed when it all changes, and sometimes quite violently and abruptly. On one session, I was sailing up an arm of the lake, maybe 1/4 mile width, and the wind came from 3 different directions (none of them the forecast prevailing wind) over that 1/4 mile. Fun stuff! But one thing you can always count on - the wind will always be wrong for the direction that you actually want to go in!
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Re: 1st attempted outing

Postby GreenLake » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:16 pm

I've experienced the opposite on a local lake: sailing all three sides of a triangular course going upwind. . . .
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Re: 1st attempted outing

Postby Fly4rfun » Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:24 pm

I figure its helping me learn how to adjust.
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