Seeing as increasing numbers of people are heading out on to (or into
) the water following their winter hibernation it seems that some people need a gentle reminder to look behind them before they gybe.
Please do it - I've seen a few near misses over the last couple of weeks and imagine that getting a board up the ass is probably quite painful if you do get hit.
This is me being nice
. If I wanted to be nasty I'd post something in the teabagger forum[}:)]
Fair warning. Look before tacking or gybing.
BTW its arse not ass. An ass is a donkey.
Good call.
Also, if you're gybing right behind me half expect me to come to a sudden halt right in front of you
Crowded sailing is like flying with a flock of pigeons. Pigeons don't shout "starboard". They all tack and gybe together. What's their secret?
Same goes the other way to.
Don't sail to close to others. Be aware that if you are sailing close to another sailor and just on their leeward side and not passing them (maintaining same speed), you are stopping them from initiating a gybe - not every boby wants to sail of into the horizon.[}:)]
So it goes both ways! Be thoughtful ans awareof all!
I'm with you on this thread - on Sunday some guy tried to get himself hurt by gybing right across me. He bailed, came to the surface - "sorry mate - thought you were going the other way". Got the apology, everything ended happily.
In another incident, as I was derigging, some bloke upwind of me turned his back on his unattached rig. The wind got under it, and it took off over him before landing harmlessly. He then (unbelievably) wandered around for a bit, leaving the rig still unattached to anything, still fully exposed to the wind AND with the battens in the perfect position for getting lift, AND still upwind of me!
He wandered off to the car (a couple of minute walk), which made me think that maybe it wasn't his rig after all... I grabbed it and put it behind some shelter and popped the battens before it took my head off. Same bloke comes back 5 minutes later, grabs the rig and heads off to the water. I had a polite word explaining that what he'd just done was VERY uncool... (I was very nice about it though).
Honestly - that's the kind of thing I expect from a newbie kiter, not an apparently competent windsurfer.
Rant over.
Hey, you're not wrong Nasty.
I wonder if anybody has ever published an etiquette manual for windsurfers?
I am afraid to say I looked AND
Who the hell was the director and casting agent, did the whole lot take ugly pills
Anyway sailing at Smelville has it own drama's especially with some people gybing and others tacking is such a small are and eye out is so so important.
