When she texts to tell you her parents aren’t home

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crispybaconstrip@reddit

I think it was trying but too much weight from all the crew in the cockpit

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paushi@reddit

For me it's rather the missing wings.

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FredIsAThing@reddit

Right? A plane is for smoothing wood, and this doesn't look like wood much at all.

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Glenbard@reddit

I honestly don’t believe I’ve ever seen a sailboat come up on plane in person…

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NotSayinItWasAliens@reddit

You: "I know they aren't home. They're in the boat with me."

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gagnatron5000@reddit

Man, the second that genny filled out they screamed into a plane! Where's that pirates of the Caribbean theme song?

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Jabudah@reddit

Genny is a valid abbreviation of gennaker, itself a portmanteau of Genoa spinnaker

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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

That is tacked to a prod and not cut like a gennaker. Sorry, it's an asymmetrical spinn

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Telekomiker69@reddit

Oh a asym spin is a asym not driven on a fixed pole. It is on a mobing pole. Like the VO 60 or the America's cup boats from 2005.

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Wildgreekpilot@reddit

You knew what he meant, we all do... jebus ya boat snobs. Making this not fun for everyone else.

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Legitimate-Gift-1344@reddit

Boat snobs, just a rung down from Porsche snobs.

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foilrider@reddit (OP)

J/70 class rules refer to it as a gennaker.

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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

Noted, this video is awesome. Get full of envy considering I race on an IOR boat that just digs a deeper hole and loads up exponentially.

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port-left-red@reddit

Much of the world (including sail makers, pro sailors) use the term asymmetric and gennaker interchangeably, even if gennaker can technically have a specific meaning.

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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

That I will concede is geography based, but the angles they are sailing and how the sail is cut...it's a spinnaker

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gagnatron5000@reddit

Thank you, I'm still pretty new at this.

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oga_ogbeni@reddit

This is frighteningly fast! How can you you tack or jibe at this speed?

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KingJellyfishII@reddit

take down the spinnaker, gybe, rehoist

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KingJellyfishII@reddit

well then I don't know, the only times I've sailed with a spinnaker in high winds we dropped before gybing but it could be because I'm no good at sailing...

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typicalheathen666@reddit

All engines ahead flank, come to course 270!!!!!!

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zimirken@reddit

Shoot, reminding me I need to make an engine telegraph.

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typicalheathen666@reddit

Turn right heading 315 aye, conning officer my rudder is right 15 degrees coming to course 315 checking course 138!

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richtopia@reddit

I was a little confused when I saw 4 people in the boat - I guess she is making pizza?

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Shot-Scratch3417@reddit

No, she is a boat. And you are a boat. You’re both boats.

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Nephroidofdoom@reddit

Explains the extended bowsprit. Heyoo!!

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Weird1Intrepid@reddit

Do you want a tender? Because this is how you make a tender

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Ynaught-42@reddit

Wow, what a rush!

I'll never forget when our Thistle planed under us - that was a hell of a day!

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It must be my age but the "parents aren't home" makes her sound very young. How young are sailboat owners now days? ... stupid me now days no one has money to buy or rent so everyone stays with they parents until inherit parents' house.

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clamdever@reddit

Spin-nak-her?? I hardly know her!

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AliiyCat@reddit

Niceee

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Optimal-Company-4633@reddit

Weeeeee

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scshireman@reddit

She just knows OP has that Big Dock Energy.

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blewisCU@reddit

Giant red flag

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jkalchik99@reddit

Note: I'm 250 lbs. of movable ballast.....or rather, was. Haven't set foot on a deck in 20 years.

30+ years ago, I was on a J-22 in a 30-35 knot wind (IIRC....) with a full spinnaker on a dead downwind run to the finish line (12 starts, something like 120 boats in the fleet.) We were one of the very few boats that didn't take a reef in any of the sails, and sailing 1 man short to boot. The gent who set the finish told me that night that he saw something like 8" of the keel's leading edge visible out of the water. That was one heck of a ride.

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stinkyelbows@reddit

Just MOVIN

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Sweaty_Catch_4275@reddit

Funny ))

By subj: j70 - not bad yacht for regattas!

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DanielJoseph111@reddit

💙💙💙