Interesting…..

Monday, March 9th, 2009

It seems my life is either flat out or the extreme opposite. At the moment it’s flat out, hence the lack of posts. I did however get a chance to sail last two Saturdays in between work at CST and Sunday Moth coaching.

Bruce has some nice data on his website of the race from 1 week ago which for the record was won by Dave by 4 minutes. The tide turned (literarly) at St George this weekend after I won by a 2 minute margin. It good to see the 10 year old Dave v’s Luka rivelry still lives on. What would be even nicer, is to get a few others in there to mix things up. It’s been tough going though, with Lea braking his foil for the 2nd time and Bruce doing the same. Chris is out with a broken gantry, so the fleet is looking quite wounded.

Another interesting thing was talking to Julian Bethweite at Woolahra about the foiling 49er last Sunday. I have seen the powerboat prototype and the final configuration (at this stage) is a centreboard hydrofoil (no flaps) with a forward canard foil which will also act as a rudder sporting a small flap controlled by a wand. No rudder at back.

Certainly an interesting configuration and Julian seems adamant  it will work. It has been tried by few on a Moths too, however  all I can say if this is the final configuration this will be interesting. Launch day is in about a month.

4 Comments to Interesting…..

dave on March 9th, 2009

1. It was a handicap race and u start 7 min in front
luka on March 10th, 2009

2. And finished 9 in front. You can’t get them all Dave…
dave on March 10th, 2009

3. i know
John on March 27th, 2009

4. Those fwd rudder boats don’t tack very well since the rudder stops the bow from falling off to leeward mid tack. They’re great until you tack??

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