Dirty air

[jimi]

how do I know if I've got it?

 

[Twister_Ken]

dirty'air

Just shampoo regularly.

 

[sailorman]

how do I know if I've got it?

Coz yer air gets dryer dunit

 

[lw395]

You'll find the air cleaner gets clogged in dirty air.

 

[sailorman]

You'll find the air cleaner gets clogged in dirty air.

then you need an airbrush

 

[DJE]

how do I know if I've got it?

It's when you're listening to this!

 

[Salty John]

Yer air sticks to yer ead.

 

[jimi]

Jealous guys?

Ask a sensible sailing question and the thread gets hijacked by the hirsutely envious AKA baldy bastids

 

[TamarMike]

Sailing answer as requested:-

Usually if your downwind of a Clyde Puffer (Para Handy), PS Kingswear Castle or any vessel registered in the Indian sub-continent.

 

[ianat182]

Dirty Air

The yacht to windward of you takes your wind,slows you down.Bear away to clear air,job done-or tack!! Non specific question gets various replies!

 

[sarabande]

Have you checked for vacillations in yer laminar flow recently ?

 

[jimi]

Have you checked for vacillations in yer laminar flow recently ?

Precisely why I asked, cos when to leeward or astern , dirty air is reasonably obvious. However is it possible to get dirty air from the leeward boat when windward boat on a beat?

 

[Twister_Ken]

"is it possible to get dirty air from the leeward boat when windward boat on a beat?"

Yes, but you've really got to be sitting on her hip.

 

[Leighb]

Precisely why I asked, cos when to leeward or astern , dirty air is reasonably obvious. However is it possible to get dirty air from the leeward boat when windward boat on a beat?

That is the principle of the "lee bow tack" If you get it just right you are throwing dirty air back into your competitors sails and he is forced to tack away or find himself falling back when he will be fully in your dirt.

Get it wrong however and one of two bad things will happen, either he will roll over you to windward and you will wish you had ducked astern, or worse you will have tacked in his water and you will have to do turns or be protested out.

 

[gandy]

Precisely why I asked, cos when to leeward or astern , dirty air is reasonably obvious. However is it possible to get dirty air from the leeward boat when windward boat on a beat?

I think I remember being told you get a lift from a leeward boat. That might only be when you're crossing their bow, rather than sailing parallel.