GYBE – 1982 by Peter Mohilla
Reprint from FINNLOG / FINNFARE Summer 1982
To gybe is the maneouvre, everybody is most afraid of, since it causes the highest percentage of capsizing Depending upon experience, this fear sets in somewhere between 2 and 6 Beaufort, but a Finnsailor without that feeling at all lacks the instinct of self-preservation.
Therefore you find on the following pages a collection of contributions to the topic, some hopefully will help the beginners to learn the gybe, so me will enable the advanced to get over a lost gybe, and same will boost the expert after a victorious gybe.
On a standard Olympic course you have to gybe at least twice. In detail there are three different maneouvres to be discussed, talking about gybing:
- The STANDARD GYBE, performed generally at the gybe-mark between the two reaches, a change of tack with the wind including a definite change of the course.Weiterlesen »GYBE – 1982 by Peter Mohilla
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