49er sur foils

Fréd écrit:

YLR écrit:

vous allez tous finir en RS700

Je suis en veille sur le marché anglais... ;rolleyes; :-X

j'ai pas dit le RS7000 !
(je sais... charité bien ordonnée...)

enfant terrible écrit:

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Et le 49er à moteur fallait y penser !!!
Merci Bethwaite thumbsup;

~ jB ~ écrit:

Z'êtes surs que c'est pas l'équipier qui aurait oublié de détacher la mise à l'eau???

Mais si c'est çà !!!

Ca a pas l'air pratique pour gréer...

From Julian Bethwaite on SA 07/04/2009:
"Hi Guys, that was our second outing, probably up 25% of the time, first outing we where only up 10% of the time, maybe because the skipper (me) was 20+kgs heavier than Nathan (Outridge, present 49er WC) who is steering in these shots with my son Harry in the beak both times.

Harry steered also, think we may have got the highest speed with Harry steering, 2 sail reaching (there is a spin on board but you over run it way to fast and its a 49er sport (flat) spin.

Wind speed was mostly 10-12 knts, and we had a peak speed of 21knts (velocitek) averaged over 2 secs, lots of 20+s so we are pretty happy. On the first sail max speed was 16.7 in approx 14 knts of wind.

Lot of little things to do, may make a new front array, but its working far better than we had hoped at this stage.

Unlikely to go sailing/foiling again till after Easter, boat is being stripped down again ( approx 1 hr work) into a "real" 49er so Harry can train for Garda.

BTW, the rudder in the back, is just so we can get in and out of the mooring here at Woollahra, its removed as soon as we get free! As our confidence grows, we will despense completely with the old rudder or may a short stub rudder just when the boat pitches heavily nose up, may be nice at 25 knts to have some steering apparatus in the water. Lots of potential nose pitch downs, (nose dives) but its as safe as houses, you dont worry about it.

This, BTW, is a extrodinary succcess for Dad, who did 75% of this, by this, I mean make the arrays and wet sand the foils, huge effort. We will get him on the beast in a month or so, when we have better control! Not bad for a old bugger who turns 89 in a month.

He deserves the credit mor ethan anyone. Im a lucky boy,

Julian"

YLR écrit:

j'ai pas dit le RS7000 !
(je sais... charité bien ordonnée...)

C'est vrai, ça... Avec son foc auto-vireur, il ne manque plus qu'une pompe à spi pour que nous puissions passer, toi comme moi, au RS 800 et ainsi goûter aux plaisir du côté RS de la force... ;rolleyes;