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isobars
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| manuel wrote: | | To plane out of jibes, we need lots of board volume, good sail power, flatter waters, a friendly swell ... |
Those help most people at first, but the technique that got me over the hump from not jibing to planing all the way through almost every jibe (unless I was slogging going into the jibe) is independent of all those factors. The same technique worked from 55 to 110 litres (my weight ran from 185 to 200 pounds, with the VAST majority of my sailing on 65 liters), from 2.8 overpowered to 7.5 milking it (obviously not on 65 liters), and include the choppiest crap the interior Columbia River could produce. What really matters, IMO, is skills and a board that ignores chop even when carving tight, fast, and precisely in ANY terrain at top speed. Given those, we can jibe any time, any where I've ever seen without losing the plane. |
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westender
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Location: Portland / Gorge
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| The difference is, experts have no problems doing planing jibes. Without most of the things Manu mentions. |
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