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Are you over powered gybing?
Gybing over powered How to cope
This is a very common feeling and very often
many are sailing too over powered – so
change down! However, it might be that
you’re just not sheeting that clew in going
into the turn! Stay lower for longer after unhooking on downwind set up. Don’t rush to come
over and carve, concentrate on turning downwind, sheeting the clew in and
back to ‘try’ and make that key touch point, where the foot of the sail clips
your inside leg.
Jonny Clothier way ‘over
powered’ – clew
downwind.
Here’s Jonny making it
smoother, now it’s
sheeted in.
Bruce Cotsell way ‘over
powered’ due to flexed mast
arm.
Bruce sheeting in by
extending mast arm and
sheeting in with clew arm.
Amaury Lamy controls the power
by sheeting the rig in to touch
his rear ‘carving’ leg.
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