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#185724 07/21/09 02:55 PM 07/21/09 02:55 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA | I've actually sailed on a Spitfire! All thanks to Dermot in Dublin! (Thanks again Dermot!)
I liked the Spitfire design, big round hulls with lots of volume, is the Shockwave designed like that? http://catsailingnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/lodaywhite-shockwave.html2 seconds in google and 1.98 of it was spent typing in "shockwave catamaran"
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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#185732 07/21/09 03:15 PM 07/21/09 03:15 PM |
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 749 Santa Cruz, CA SurfCityRacing
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Posts: 749 Santa Cruz, CA | Uh Oh. That didn't get ME very far last time I threw it out there. JC has bigger muscles. Absolutely. People would be surprised to find out who knows who in this world of cat sailing. It's an incestuous bunch I tell ya. J | | | Re: After World's Questions
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#185733 07/21/09 03:29 PM 07/21/09 03:29 PM |
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,655 Portland, Maine ThunderMuffin
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Posts: 3,655 Portland, Maine | Uh Oh. That didn't get ME very far last time I threw it out there. JC has bigger muscles. Absolutely. People would be surprised to find out who knows who in this world of cat sailing. It's an incestuous bunch I tell ya. J I donno what you're talking about, but JC's shoulders are the size of bowling balls. | | | Re: After World's Questions
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#185734 07/21/09 03:35 PM 07/21/09 03:35 PM |
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Posts: 3,969 | All Alu masts, F18 rule. 30knots and huge waves, not strange at all, it was survival conditions they've told me. Good point. Anyone with the cahones to even attempt racing with a chute in 30 knots probably needs to have their heads examined... Mike | | | Re: After World's Questions
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#185737 07/21/09 03:43 PM 07/21/09 03:43 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 548 MERRITTISLAND, FL Matt M
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Posts: 548 MERRITTISLAND, FL | All Alu masts, F18 rule. 30knots and huge waves, not strange at all, it was survival conditions they've told me. Good point. Anyone with the cahones to even attempt racing with a chute in 30 knots probably needs to have their heads examined... Mike I raced just up the coast from there in those kind of conditions. Shallow water big current and huge steep waves that are very close together all with cold gusty wind. Went swimming a lot as that was not anything I had ever seen even close to before that. It is racing though and this was the World championship. If the guy ahead or behind of you puts up his chute you have to follow. If he does not go over you were not going to beat him anyway. If he does go over, you can douse it after you pass him up. | | | Re: After World's Questions
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#185739 07/21/09 04:10 PM 07/21/09 04:10 PM |
Joined: May 2006 Posts: 96 Budapest, Hungary, Europe CatSailingHu
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Posts: 96 Budapest, Hungary, Europe | All Alu masts, F18 rule. 30knots and huge waves, not strange at all, it was survival conditions they've told me. Good point. Anyone with the cahones to even attempt racing with a chute in 30 knots probably needs to have their heads examined... Mike I raced just up the coast from there in those kind of conditions. Shallow water big current and huge steep waves that are very close together all with cold gusty wind. Went swimming a lot as that was not anything I had ever seen even close to before that. It is racing though and this was the World championship. If the guy ahead or behind of you puts up his chute you have to follow. If he does not go over you were not going to beat him anyway. If he does go over, you can douse it after you pass him up. In this conditions easier to sail downwind with kite than without. The wind direction was changed so if you were on the wrong side of the field you have to go to the gate without kite. | | | Re: After World's Questions
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#185740 07/21/09 04:10 PM 07/21/09 04:10 PM |
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. Timbo
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Thanks for all the links guys, much appreciated. Looks like they had quite a good time!
And as Matt points out, sailing over there is -not- like sailig over here. More wind, more waves, and the locals are used to sailing in it.
I'm guessing there probably isn't a US based Race Committee that would have sent the fleet out in 30 knot winds!
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#185745 07/21/09 04:28 PM 07/21/09 04:28 PM |
Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 3,969 brucat
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Posts: 3,969 | I'm guessing there probably isn't a US based Race Committee that would have sent the fleet out in 30 knot winds! ...And that would be an incorrect guess. Although, normally, no one but the top third of the H16 fleet wants to be out in those conditions (you read that correctly, no other boats), and they're not afraid to tell you that. Mike | | | Re: After World's Questions
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#185746 07/21/09 04:32 PM 07/21/09 04:32 PM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 1,253 Columbia South Carolina, USA dave mosley
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Posts: 1,253 Columbia South Carolina, USA | Last week 2 guys argued with me here on catsailor that they were out in 30-40 KNOTS and I called them on it. They both held to thier story and I started to wonder if I was a wus.(no comment Tad or Todd!) Maybe thier story wasnt exactly accurate.... Ive been in a monohull when it was blowing 30, and it was rediculous. No way a cat could survive for very long in that. And yes, no RC would send them out in todays litigation hungry world.
The men were amazed, and said, "What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?" Matthew 8:27
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