[quote=goodsailing]NeubaurRL, Not dising your experience. I don't see that if 15kts was boring wanting to sail in 18 or more is overconfident. Now perhaps sailing in 4' waves blowing 20+ with gusts to 28-30 prior to even seeing if my righting pole works solo might be over confident. How about with a crew? Perhaps no so overconfident. So tell me how do you capsize the boat in 15kts to practice righting the boat for those more windy days. Fact is, the likeliness that I'll capsize the boat will be most likely during days 18-20. CG is right around the corner and I always carry vhf, and as I mentioned before I intend to capsize the boat with crew, so that I might practice, try to right the boat myself, but will have help if needed. What kind of day will that be? Most likely a day I'll struggle to keep the boat upright yet due to wind, or gusts, failed. So then we'll practice righting the boat. I don't expect to die doing this and could probably call another boater over or even swim to shore if needed. Is there a way to tip the boat over in still water with crew.. Will hanging off the traps ease the boat over. If so then we might try that on a calm day, otherwise, I'm pretty much tasked with being confident that I can deal with the unexpected, or expected which ever come first, but I"m really anxious to learn about "getting powered up."
The key thing is: will I be able to sail the boat back in one piece, without injury to the put in, in any conditions, even after a couple of dumps. That is my main concern. Would be getting bit if I couldn't. Not capsizing.[/quote]
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