Originally Posted by Dan_Delave
Originally Posted by pepin
And those boats still lives. One of our cat sailor won the Weymouth Speed week last year with a 15yo trifoiler...

Looks the same though it is not all the same. Longshot was very light, did not have the conveniences in launching that the production boat had, and the boards on LS were designed to do 50kts. The boards on the production boat were designed to not break. Not the differences like apples and oranges, more like track Ferrari to street Ferrari.

Later,
Dan (Tri-foiler test pilot)
My intention was not to say those were the same. I know longbow and the trifoiler are different beasts. One is a sport car, the other one a F1. But I'm amazed that a 15yo boat can still win at one of those events... Granted the wind was light and the max speed was under 20knts, but still...

Last edited by pepin; 02/19/10 06:39 AM.