How did it break, Old age, fair wear and tear or hit something harder? Big T foils look very robust compared to the more modern designs.
I had a great sail yesterday on the F16 which hadn't been out since the Rutland Cat Open, I have been doing a bit of crewing on a Cork 1720 in the meantime which is a great sportsboat.
The Weather was surprisingly nice after a showery start to the day. The wind was light to moderate and I went out 1 hour prior to a Club race to practice spi gybing from the wire. I hardly ever fly the kite from the wire during a race and it's something I wanted to work on to improve my current dodgy technique. I think it will take another 2-4 hrs to find a good routine for getting out on to the wire and also master a gybe where the spi doesn't collapse as soon as I start to come in off the wire. Having studied Cats racing I reckon a collapsed spi costs on average 2 boat lengths and this is one of the main reasons why I usually sit in downwind.
Do you racers who regularly trap downwind have any video footage of your spi gybes, if so could us minions get to see them somewhere?
The OOD arrived 30mins late for the race and only 1 F18 and a Dart stayed out. I won the race but the wind was so light by 19:00hrs there was no way of trapping up or downwind.