video of launching fin keel at recent regatta

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https://youtu.be/SDsipvu8hjc

This GoPro video was shot at the recent Whiskeytown Regatta held on Memorial Day weekend with this video showing our launch on the second day. Apparently we had not gotten the boat all the way forward on the dock the day before and the tongue weight was very light. I'm hoping to build some sort of long fulcrum to just swivel from horizontal to vertical and lift the tongue off the hitch ball and then drop down to the tongue wheel - instead of cranking on the pivoting jackstand wheel.
 
Jul 9, 2013
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We won with three bullets. And on the last race, they started us together with the "faster PHRF Keel boats" - and even though we weren't scored against them - beat all of them, too! See a report elsewhere on the Racing forum. Kudzu wins at Whiskeytown (for the 7th or 8th year in a row). It's always nice to see the funny looks on the faces of the VXOne, Rondar K6 and Holder 20 drivers as we rounded the windward mark with them (and in front of a Capri 25 and Moore 24). And even passed the Holder 20 on the downwind leg, finishing just a few minutes behind the high tech VXOne and Rondar K6 - but corrected for first place by over 90 seconds and 2:30 respectively. A Capri 22 in light air is kryptonite to asymmetrical flying, carbon fiber or composite planning sportboats!
 

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