I suspect it's a Nimbus 1 specific quote (Open Cirrus fuselage with huge
wings) - see Moffat's Winning on the Wind 1st ed for a description of
the fun he had flying this beast.

I'm told the Nimbus 2 is *way* better handling (even though almost all
opinions I've heard on the 2 - as opposed to the 2c - are not
complimentary).

phil collin wrote:
Tony Verhulst wrote:
Chris Reed wrote:
I'd say this post provides an excellent summary.

There are gliders where, to obtain improved performance, it is
sometimes helpful to fly uncoordinated. For example, to persuade my
Open Cirrus (1967 design, 17.7m span) to turn into a strong thermal,
it's sometimes most effective to yaw it towards the thermal enough to
induce the beginning of a wing drop - then catch it and continue into
the turn.

In the (most excellent) video "A Fine Week of Soaring", George Moffat
says that the handling of some first generation glass ships was so
poor that you could initiate a turn substantially faster by first
moving the stick in the opposite direction. Once the adverse yaw (in
the desired direction)had kicked in, THEN you'd move the ailerons into
the turn.

Tony V
Sounds like a Nimbus 2 specific quote....