Oh man.. What kind of wind was these pictures taken in ?? 15-20 m/s ??
Truly awesome, but I tought the idea was to keep both hulls down in conditions like this
I smell a story here Steve, did you save it, or did you go over. You seem to be quite close to the shore..
Hi Rolf,
Trade mark Sail Melbourne conditions. This was in 25 to 30 knots with short waves over 2 meters high.
We were coming back to shore with the other Ts and thought we would have a bit of fun and wind it up.
In the last shot my crew threw in the kite sheet. I started to ease a bit of main and bear away but the gust got us and we went swimming
Brent jumped of the transom and was seperated from the boat. I landed in the main sail putting my elbow through it
. With Brent out of reach of the boat I grabed the mainsheet and pushed out to try and get a leg out within his grasp.
For about a minute Brent was bodysurfing down the waves to catch me but every time he came close the boat would catch a wave and we'd seperate. I jumped on the boat, retrieved the kite and managed to right it by myself by just leaning on the dolphin striker.
Brent was later picked up by another T after he recovered from a sectacular capsize too. This T (Current Oz champ), his crew was washed of the side of the boat with his rear foot still in the foot strap. Being draged along with the kite still up the skipper thought it would be best to jibe the boat and capsize.
Yes the crew was very sore after.
