Maxprop wrote:
"NotPony" wrote in messag

Geesh, Max, hold old are you? Roll tacking has
been acceptable for as long as I can remember.

I sailed Snipes in the early 70s. The SCIRA rule book, at that time,
prohibited "ooching, sculling, pumping, rocking, and any other kinetic
movements which might give the competitor an unfair advantage."
....

There was a lot of debate in the late '60's as to whether roll tacking
was considered kinetics. I was taught in 1965 to roll tack, but to
avoid doing it aggressively or too frequently. That is, it was OK to
do it to avoid losing ground on a tack, but not OK if you were gaining.

I remember a day when it was absolutely dead calm and a dozen teams
were sitting on the dock waiting for a breeze, and one team challenged
another to a roll tack race. Four or five teams hopped in their Tech
Dinghies and started roll tacking around the river. Several were so
good they seemed to be doing 2 or 3 knots! It was a bit of an eye
opener for me.