Not often, but always at the worst possible time.
I've caught the uphaul more often than the harness lines, which is why I rarely put one on.
Only in really marginal conditions where I might get totally becalmed.

Yep the point of no return on the gybe and you find you are going with the sail like it or not.

Half way through a flaka don't know how but it hurt like hell.

solution

as you start to enter a gybe, move front hand back to the lines, and use your thumb to push the lines away from yourself

added benefit is it makes it easier to lean the mast forward and oversheet as you enter the gybe, thus keeping the nose down and engaging more rail

Oh yeah .

pierrec45 said...

or is it me only?

I once managed to hook up mid-gybe on the boom. Not sure how I did that but all of sudden I'm looking at the sail up close. I think I might have crashed ...

gs12 said...

pierrec45 said...

or is it me only?

I once managed to hook up mid-gybe on the boom. Not sure how I did that but all of sudden I'm looking at the sail up close. I think I might have crashed after that ...

a friend sailing down sandy point a few years ago came in after a marathon session. he said that as he came into the shallow he unhooked and de-powered. he was so tired he let go of the sail to let it fall leeward, intending to fall windward into the water himself. not quite sure on the details here, but somehow the harness re-engaged, and violently threw him over the handlebars with the sail. the sail pile drives him and he dislocates his shoulder.

untangling himself, with his good arm he tries to wave down his brother who is still blasting out the back. bro' waves happily back and continues blasting...

correct any details I got wrong Sam. :)

sboardcrazy said...
I'd taken a sickie to go sailboarding so i couldnt even brag about it..

LOL

airsail said...

Easy fix, learn to sail with the hook up, no more accidental hook ups during a gybe. Also very useful while wave sailing, bottom turns are a real bitch when your hook grabs a line half way through.

I think I started sailing with the hook up ( 80's) then fashion swung to hook down.. Is that because the lines drop out easier/ accidentally hook up..?

never happens to me.. cause i'm a fkin legend.
sh1t yeah b1tch

Used to happen to me often at the start of the gybe especially on a windy day and very bumpy swell where my harness lines would flail about...days before plastic covers over the lines. Nowadays I wish I could find time to sail when it's windy to see if it still happens, long way to go for that to happen me thinks.

Got a 7.5 sail now, just have to try it out....baby steps to being a real windsurfer again! Slow progress but getting there! Watch this space!

There are days when I re-hook in during every third or fourth jibe. Then months go by with no problem. I'm in a no-problem stretch now...

JINXED IT!

Invariably it's a bent front elbow that causes the problem.

(all of this excludes the classic "catapult to under-sail, hooked in, inside the boom" freestyle explosion).

Only hook in accidentally when I'm in the middle of a perfect planing gybe! So then it ends up being not so perfect after the face plant.

I'm with Airsail, hook up.
When I got a new harness I started to occasionally hook in unintentionally, I think because the new hooks are long and curve a long way back, trapping the harness line, unlike my old short hook. So I thought "maybe there's a good reason nearly everyone goes hook down these days" and persevered for a session or two hook down but I kept hooking in on gybes and I wasn't going to alter my gybes because of my harness. Same as you shouldn't have to hold the line with your hand to keep it out of the way in a gybe. So I went back to hook up, and if I shorten the hook (by welding) it'll be even better.

The other side of the issue is how easy is it to unhook in a hurry, which can be shown by how often you catapult hooked in. For me almost never, once every few years at most.