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Old 28th Nov 2008, 11:04
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Don Coyote
 
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Simplest way is to apply one times the drift on the inbound leg and 3 times the drift on the outbound leg. Effectively you are using 1 times drift for the outbound leg itself and the other 2 to offset the effect of the wind in the turn.

Simple and works quite well on standard size holds.
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