Gorge practice race: with lethal upwind speed

[@LeonidScott]

Did you notice there was anything you did differently from everyone else on the upwind that helped you? Also, I always thought that grabbing the mainsheet outside the main block was against pumping rules.

[@ilca_masters]

Upwind is about flatness, if you're curious about a specific part of the video, let me know and I'll take a look. See my sail easing to keep flatness, and timing of trimming with steering. About downwind: " The principle behind rule 42 is simple: the rule writers want people to race their sailboats by sailing them (i.e., using the natural wind) as opposed to by propelling or slowing them in other ways." Where the sheet is grabbed is not a determinant in itself. One way to think about it is to do one downwind non-pumping trimming action per wave and in coordination with a boat change of direction.