Just saw this at LR Cats Yahoo Page
Hulls look nicer than the LR2, hope it goes as well as it looks.

Love the hull Shape, Leeward Hull is Riding so High in the water.
Buuut, I better learn my new Mark IV first
CARY

Masts seem to be creeping aft, same with the latest Flyer.

Matt Strubel on the LR3 beat Randy at Spring Fever (5 firsts in 8 races), but Randy was out for 2 races with damage and won 2 of the last 3 races, so not sure who was going fastest.

The Boat is beautiful, but I think the jury's out on is it fast. Matt is so good, its really hard to tell anything about any boat he is on.

Is it just me or does the platform look to be twisting a lot in these photos? Could be just a camera angle thing.

Someone else said that to me, but I think it is camera angle.

Randy was out 5 races(all saturday) and got 2 bullets and a 3rd on Sunday.

The LR3 looked great. The platform seemed solid and performed well in a wide range of conditions. Matt's straight line boat speed was great, especially upwind.

Randy was also very qucik and seemed to have an edge downwind over the entire fleet.

Hartwell is a very tough place to measure performance. Presure lines and playing the shifts was the name of the game. However when the boats got together we were able to make some observations about boat speed.

Overall the LR3 seems like a promising concept and should certainly be competitive with other designs in the fleet.

Thanks to Nigel for a great time as always and for lending me his Boyer for the weekend!

-Chris

Congrats Chris,
Pretty impressive on a borrowed boat.
Todd