QLD
7436 posts
You're blasting along on a beam reach in smooth water. You step around the front to the lee side like you were tacking but you don't change direction. As you pull the sail accross and grab the boom on the new side, the nose pearls. As you stand there in front of the mast and support yourself with the rig you pivot the board around on its nose, drop the fin back in the water on the new tack, sheet in and sail back the way you came.
What's it called? I'm tentatively calling this a pearl tack til I know different.
NSW
109 posts
nose sink tack, very very early freestyle move from the late 80's dont see anyone doin much any more. better than a normal tack though
QLD
7436 posts
No not a nose sink tack. The nose sink tacks I've seen involve turning into the wind, sinking the nose, pivoting the board, and sailing off clew first.
With this one you jump around the front, don't change direction, sink the nose, pivot the board, sail off luff first.
WA
165 posts
Sounds like a tack with speed to me. You jump around while still planing? I reckon you can call it a pearl tack if you want.
QLD
7436 posts
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very very early freestyle move from the late 80's dont see anyone doin much any more
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I think you might be seeing a bit more of it and other nose sinking tricks given the size of board noses these days. Also tacks that avoid stepping around the front like Helis and maybe even Duck Tacks if they weren't so difficult. Oh and lots of Snap Gybes.
NSW
575 posts
they feel pretty cool when you do them, but thats all it is, a tack where you sink the nose and go a bit faster...
