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Thanks for the comment. I agree that the tighter boom vang can help in strong wind upwind, especially if we are dropping the sheet. This is still true i the modern sailing technique. In this footage, I think my vang was set to 93% of my max setting. I could have pull it further a bit, but in this practice I left some room, as the max vang makes the tacking very challenging (boom becomes very low). I remember the old days when we could only use 3:1 vang, and we needed to pull the vang as you described. Nowadays, thanks to the modern vang system with 15:1 ratio, we do not need to do that any more. Still, for me who is not so physically strong, pulling the vang to the max setting is challenging thing to do.

Thanks for the comment. My camera and video setting is described in the following link, and at the bottom of this page, you can find the picture which describes the each indication. You can click the photo to enlarge the image. toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

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Thank you very much. I made my camera mount by myself, and this is described in the following link: toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

@@toshinaritakayanagi incredible stuff, thanks!

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I use GoPro Hero 9 with Max lens mod. Some details are listed on toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

I think “173cm, 70kg” would be almost ideal for the radial. I heard Anna Marie Rindom, one of the top ILCA6 sailors, telling “ideal weight for radial is 67kg if you are fit, 70kg if you are not so fit.” I think this would be a top level athlete statement, but I think 70kg is good. In Masters group (over 45 years), I think the ideal weight for radial is 75kg as we are not so fit and not young. I am 167cm 65Kg, so I am a bit too short and too light.

@@toshinaritakayanagi thanks brooo

Thank you very much for the comment. Mine also gets the spay that crowds the view, just like this footage. However, if mine looks better, a couple of things I can think of are: (1) I coat the lens with Rain-X water repellant before I launch, though I am not sure if it has any positive effect. (2) My camera setup is shown here: toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html I use a relatively long pole for the camera mount, which might be making the camera position higher above the water, possibly reducing the spray hitting the lens? (3) I use Max Lens Mod, which has a curved surface. This curvature might be helping in reducing the water droplets sticking less to the lens?

Thank you very much for the kind comment!

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with your observation.

I can do that. That’s why I gave up and now drive a flybridge yacht - no chance of spilling my drinks. The death roll I could never manage, it was bloody annoying and I just wasn’t good enough

Yes, I was sailing by-the-lee.

@@toshinaritakayanagi At least how I see it, the roll happened the moment you let the sail out past 90 degrees. Letting out the sail like that may have caused a change in how the direction of lift being generated by the sail affected your direction and balance point, causing said lift to push the head of the sail to windward, rolling the boat on top of you. WIth the head being the furthest from the boat's centre of mass it lets it dictate what the boat's gonna do quite easily. In those situations, might be worth getting in the habit of shifting your weight in the boat more/even further leeward (depending how extreme you need to balance it) at the same time as letting the sail out in that context as anticipation for the change in balance. Could be wrong tho!

@@thelongone3218 Thank you very much for the feedback. I was probably already unstable with loose vang and sail too far out for the angle. Then, the sheet ease was perhaps the last straw as you mentioned, tipping the balance point strongly.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you very much Justin! I wish both of us come back to the ISA and enjoy the clinic together soon!

@@toshinaritakayanagi let's do it!

Thank you very much for everything at the clinic! It was a truly fantastic experience! I will definitely come back soon!

Hey Toshi! Thank your for uploads. If you want to add timings to the video, you can add them to description and it will be separated in the auto mode. The key here is that you have to do the zero mark and it has to be, timing first, words after. Like 0:00 Intro 0:21 Warm-up drill 1:34 Downwind light winds etc I didn't realize myself that I have to do the 0:00 mark so it never worked for me, until I found it out one day. So I share it with you now, hope it's as helpful as your videos. Keep posting!

@@kabyraGe Thank you very much for the helpful advice! Let me experiment that and try it next time!

My camera setup is explained here: toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

Hi. I use Gill's Championship Gloves - Short Finger: www.gillmarine.com/championship-gloves-s-f/?sku=7243BXS

Thank you very much! I use GoPro 6 and Telemetry Overlay app. My setup details are posted on: toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

Thank you! The app I use is called "Telemetry Overlay". You will be able to search it very easily.

Thanks friend. Good Sailing

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much for the comment!

Thank you very much for sharing tour experiences, Fred! In both cases, it looks not having the mainsheet slack seems like a key.

Thanks for the feedback. I will keep them longer when I make a video next time.

The app is called "Telemetry Overlay". You should be able to find it easily by web search.

@@toshinaritakayanagiThank You! Is that a radial sail you have up in your Berkeley Circle video? I bet you would love sailing in the Columbia River Gorge here have you ever been up here to sail your laser? I live right on the river here....sail all the time.

@@charlesbronaugh8996 Yes, I sail a radial rig. I have actually sailed in Gorge a couple of times: 2-3 times before the COVID and last summer. Gorge is a beautiful place, but it tends be often too windy for me ;)

​@@toshinaritakayanagiYour boat handling looks great. Yes it is a lot of volume most all summer here. You have both good wind and currents to deal with in SF Bay, I do believe if you can sail there well you can sail anywhere! Keep it up!

@@charlesbronaugh8996 Thank you very much!!

My camera setup is described in the following link: toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

@@toshinaritakayanagi thanks, would you say for your old camera you would also be able to use the max lens mod and this does increase the fov yes?

@@cernai.mp44 I do not think so. Max Lens Mod would only work for relatively recent versions of GoPro.

Yes, indeed. I was very lucky to have been able to be part of Luke Elliott's (nickname Swifto) coaching group in that regatta. He is truly an excellent coach!

Thank you!!

Thank you, Fabio! I am trying :)

I use GoPro Hero 9 that can record these information and use desktop app called Telemetry Overly to display them. More detail in toshinari.blogspot.com/2022/08/laserilca-on-board-came-setup.html

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I see. I can also see this could have been potentially dangerous, but I am glad that we were all just able to laugh at it when we reviewed the original video with our coach. I have done this a few times in the race course when tacking, so did many sailors, but this was a rare case that the camera could capture the moment.

@@toshinaritakayanagi True. Thanks for posting the video.

@@toshinaritakayanagi Ex-laser sailer. Having done the "Korbut" flip myself many times missing the hiking strap. The risk of hitting the daggerboard is very low. The daggerboard is well forward of the cockpit.

そう、上体をなるべくボートの外に乗り出して、風で倒されそうになるボートを水平に保つわけ。実際はきついのよ💦