mmadge wrote:
Not bad..
I took a friend out the other day and the wind totally died.. So we played the trap game. The crew would shift to keep the boat upright and run the stop watch.. The idea was time started when skippers back was in the water, and stopped when fully trapped in good form on the other side. e. Moving faster didn't help. It was all about efficiency of movement, at least for us clowns.
We started in the 7-8 second range, and had it dialed in to just barely more than 4 seconds by the time we were done. This was just passing the tiller with little regard for boat steerage/control, or exact main sheet trim, but I still don't think it was to bad for a 6'5" klutz trying to squeeze under the boom.
I can't wait to take the regular crew out soon and bust out 20-30 tacks or so and check out the polars combined with the video..