Simply Awesome..!
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Great sailing, makes one want to change his shorts just watching.
I had a similar feeling at a 26' Thunderbird Class world championships in Gelong AU. We set spinnakers (because the leaders did) in 45 knots dead down wind. Everyone was afraid to reach off even the slightest for fear of an immediate round up and knockdown. But a displacement hull known to surf okay, was never expected to plane, but the bow wave coming off the quarter convinced me. I don't think we went 35 kts however.
Joe S
I had a similar feeling at a 26' Thunderbird Class world championships in Gelong AU. We set spinnakers (because the leaders did) in 45 knots dead down wind. Everyone was afraid to reach off even the slightest for fear of an immediate round up and knockdown. But a displacement hull known to surf okay, was never expected to plane, but the bow wave coming off the quarter convinced me. I don't think we went 35 kts however.
Joe S
No, no, no. That's not sailing fast. This is sailing fast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxN33qW-n4E
--Tom.
Watch the first minute or so of this one for "sailing fast", then jump forward to 3:30 or so for the result of sailing too fast...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJK5ycx_hg
It's SailRocket, for anyone who doesn't want to click on the link. Hydroptere's another good one to look up.
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