This weekend I few down to San Antonio to help a new crew get up to speed on a Dutch built X-treme 25 sportboat. The beast lives up to its name... It can plane upwind! Our training day was breezy and we planed all over the lake, but race day was lighter. Here's the crew in team colors. It's interesting, going upwind with a well sailed Olson 30 in a 25 foot boat! Downwind they crushed us.. DDW with a poles kite while we gibed like crazy trying to keep our asym filled. 5 more knots of breeze.. Different story.
It's well named. There is nothing about the boat that is not extreme. 25 feel long and weighs 2200 lbs, half in the bulb keel. 800 feet of downwind sail area. Once moving the foils generate tons of lift. Below 3 knots, nothing.
Had a great time, the crew learned tons, and I absorbed lots of Texas hospitality!
It's well named. There is nothing about the boat that is not extreme. 25 feel long and weighs 2200 lbs, half in the bulb keel. 800 feet of downwind sail area. Once moving the foils generate tons of lift. Below 3 knots, nothing.
Had a great time, the crew learned tons, and I absorbed lots of Texas hospitality!
