Dom Murphy wrote:

Since when have breaking in and turning been synonymous?

At the expense of stating the Blindingly Obvious, when one turns as
part of the action of breaking in.

pedantic then. If you are in a marathon or sprint boat and you are on
placid water, you can make your turn a great deal easier by edging away
from the direction in which you wish to turn. Better?

If it's a long carved turn you want to do, but why assume it always is?
If you want to do a very sharp change of direction at the expense
of speed (perhaps to avoid an obstacle) a low brace/telemark turn
leaned to the inside will often be a much more effective way of
going about it.

And while such a maneuver my be unusual in a sprint boat, it
certainly isn't in a sea boat, and they have the waterline length
and hull design to make an outside leaned turn completely viable
and very common /where it is the right way to go about what you
wish to achieve/.

I use both directions of lean extensively in my sea boat, as I've
been taught to. So it just doesn't make any sense to say "you are
in a long boat, you always lean turns to the outside".

You call that pedantry if you like, IMHO saying the above is only
telling half the story and since it isn't hard telling all of it,
why not tell all of it?

Pete.
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