Roll Tacking

[jimi]

After ending up in the water after an over-enthusiastic roll tack last night, I got to thinking ,whats the biggest boat you've roll tacked?

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[flaming]

Sunfast 37.

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[Nick_Pam]

Sigma 38 I used to own/race a few years ago....took 6 of us!!

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[johnsail]

What's a "Roll Tack"?

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[Superstrath]

I'd like to see you try that with my boat.

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[extravert]

> I'd like to see you try that with my boat.

Is that because it doesn't roll, or doesn't tack? ;-)

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[Superstrath]

Akshully, since we took about half a tonne of scrap out of the bows over the winter, it does tack now. Ponderously, but it does. Also goes a lot faster.
Still, as you kindly point out, it neither rolls nor tacks easily!
Time for a sport change: Off to Shelsley Walsh with a shiny new paint job. (Must stay off the walls at Doune in future)

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[cliff]

Ach is that not when you go scuddin' along on a starboard tack and tighten the sails up till you broach, and you do it that fast you roll right over and come up again on a port tack? /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Or is it the otherway round? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Peppermint]

Re: About

57ft I suppose. With hardly any benefit in forward motion but it got the boom over and it stayed there.

We used to roll tack IOR boats up to 40ft with a bit of syncronization. Not nearly as effective as on my old Firefly though.

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[Twister_Ken]

Wotsarolltack

Done in very light airs, when there's barely enough breeze for steerage way. Use your weight to tip the boat well over to leeward, then nip across t'other side sharpish, rolling boat to windward. At the same time put the helm over to tack. The roll you've induced squirts enough air over the sails to power the boat through the wind and onto the other tack. Inelegant, but it works. On calm days you can see dinghy fleets roll tacking their way up the pond.

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[cliff]

Re: Wotsarolltack

Damn - no one bit on my suggestion - thought my answer was a bit more spectacular than the truth! - I had visions of curried mince and "Fr@y B" all over the head lining.

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