Peter Foster and his sister, Peggy, have their sails in lovely trim as a gust hits them. Letting the boat heel like this can work in flat water, but only if you briefly let the boat round up and gain windward distance and then bear away before the boat loses too much speed. Here, Peter would go faster if he weren't fighting his massive weather helm (see white water around rudder). Instead, he should luff up for a second or two, then bear away as the boat flattens out while easing the main as much as required to almost eliminate his weather helm.

... once they're both hiking out, they can afford to crank on more main leech tension for better pointing or distance made good to windward. A centred traveller would enable them to do this better. As it is, they can't sheet in harder here, since that would bring the boom to windward of the centre line which is - I hear - undesirable. On 3854, we used a fairly low bridle which gave us the best of both worlds: a bit of traveller-to-windward effect but also the ability to crank on leech tension in the windier going of races 2 through 5.

Al and Marc start one of their runs, heeling slightly to windward to reduce weather helm caused by a centre of effort that is to leeward of the centre of resistance, especially on a two-sail run, or even worse, a one-sail run, which is why you see Lasers heeling so far to windward on a run.

When not actually racing, Marc and Al like to conserve what little energy they have: they roll-tack well but are absolute virtuosos in the art of lounging. A good eye will spot Marc (l) wearing his Crabby Crew shirt, which belies his actual wonderful nature.

Becky Sylvester and her anonymous (so far) crew have tons of backwind in the main as they start a run. Note the white water (turbulence, i.e. slow, not to mention wear and tear on the rudder) resulting from acute weather helm caused by even a slight leeward heel on a run when the boat is going this fast.