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- From: alien@boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten)
- Newsgroups: rec.windsurfing
- Subject: Re: Question: Layline
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:12:34 GMT
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- Pat J. Pinchera (pjp@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com) wrote:
- :
- : You are right, they have to do with approaching the mark. The best way I
- : can describe a layline is with a picture:
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- So for your typical windsurfer, the layline looks like:
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- | wind
- |
- V
- windward mark
- ___________________o_________________
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- port tack layline starboard tack layline
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- 1/2 :-)
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