Reply To: Centre Jammers
Rule is as written,
On a free leg of the course, when surfing (rapidly accelerating down the front of a wave) or planing is possible, the boat’s crew may, in order to initiate surfing or planing, pump the sheet once for each wave or gust of wind. When the sail is pumped it shall be done through the bottom block with at least three parts of the mainsheet system.
As I see it and how it was pointed out to me By Tony Woods, Pumping is only allowed as above, there is No mention of trimming in the rules. Normal adjustment of the boom and sail. Therefore by default you can trim direct from the boom. Not in the rules that you cannot.
Difficult enough for me trimming from the bottom block lets alone the boom.
