I remember back when this video came, but the details are fuzzy. However I am very upset about 'the Internet' just now. After 15 minutes of searching, I have been unable to find much information about this event. If 'the Internet' is to be our collective memory in the future, there certainly is room for improvement.
However, there is a german page giving the details of the event (the only one I could find).

"http://www.yacht.de/yo/yo_news/powerslave,id,812,nodeid,30.html"
Sorry for the poor link, I dont get the URL function to work after the upgrade. Cut and paste the whole thing and it works.


The sailor is Jochen Krauth, and he is a well known windsurfer who knows what he is doing. The tri is Bayer Cropscience, without their full crew (hence the small jib and reefed main).

The end of the movie is quite fitting. The tri is just gliding along, underpowered, while the windsurfer has met its limit and broken the mast. A bit more chop, and Jochen would have been more airborne (slow) than in the water.
Trying to match a windsurfer with a 60 foot ORMA tri in anything besides a reach on flat water would show the true relationship between their potential.


Funny enough, I think Jochen went on to sail professionally with an ORMA 60 team later on <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />