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[quote=coastrat]if you have you mast sealed good on top(not bottom,leave unsealed to let water out), it works fine...swim those bows into the wind, this will keep the wind from blowing on the underside of the tramp and pushing the mast head underwater further.

after getting a good technique now practice even harder on not flipping...you don't have to flip the boat if you don't want to.  you can still have all the hull flying fun you want but when you get a good feel for the boat, you can totaly control it.  accidents do happen but that would be the only reason you flipped, not lack of skills.

whenever you flip the boat and climb up on the inner hulls, the weight of your knees/feet on the hulls damages them a little each time.  so many older boats have "wavey" hulls right where you stand and hold the righting line.  for foam core boats this will create soft spots/delams and its even worse for the solid glass hulls giving the old "oil can" effect which leads to cracked glass.  the hulls were not designed to be bounced on a whole bunch.

you definitely need to know how to right the boat easily and even more importantly, how to get back on the thing!(even trickier for us old fat guys!)[/quote]

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