whats?

[powerskipper]

the fastest you have been under just sail power.

 

[fireball]

Fairly easy to beat the 17kn in a twin trapeze asymetric dinghy! You soon appreciate how sensitive the rudder is at that speed though!
And before any of you ask how I know what the speed was ... I have a HH GPS ...
Mind you - you stop quite quickly when the bow disappears into the large wave infront!!

 

[Bergman]

With the tiller in one hand and the main sheet in the other

What do you hold the GPS with?

Mind is boggling

 

[cliff]

[ QUOTE ]
With the tiller in one hand and the main sheet in the other

What do you hold the GPS with?

Mind is boggling

[/ QUOTE ]Naw, Naw - Tiller lashed, Main sheet cleated off, cup of coffee in one hand leaving the other free for the GPS or other activities. To keep one's self seated one has to clench one's cheeks tightly thereby gripping the seat.
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“Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity”
Skype id:cliffillupo

 

[wooslehunter]

Wiindsurfer, F8, flat water at Northney, 15 yrs ago before I got lazy, 20kts+ easy.

Or are we thinking of a proper boat?

 

[Lakesailor]

[ QUOTE ]
To keep one's self seated one has to clench one's cheeks tightly thereby gripping the seat.


[/ QUOTE ]

So what kind of seat (or buttocks) do you have?

 

[cliff]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
To keep one's self seated one has to clench one's cheeks tightly thereby gripping the seat.


[/ QUOTE ]

So what kind of seat (or buttocks) do you have?

[/ QUOTE ]foam seats and "dime" buttocks (buttocks you coud bounce a dime of) /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
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“Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity”
Skype id:cliffillupo

 

[Lakesailor]

Do you find this happens a lot?

rather bad manners I would have thought.

 

[cameronke]

Is'nt it a case of the boat stopping and your crew (and possibly yourself) proceeding without decorum?

Regards
Cameron

 

[bbg]

I was racing on a maxi in Seattle - we were heading for the leeward mark with the spinnaker up and the wind kept building - the crew (18 of us on board) let out a big cheer when we hit 15 knots - bigger cheer when we hit 16 - smaller cheer when we hit 17 and the wind had built to 35 knots with the mark approaching VERY fast. No cheer at all when, at 17.8 knots and 39 knots of wind, the skipper said "Get that *%ç&ing kite down NOW!"

Same boat 10 months later we hit 22 knots in the Molokai channel at the end of the Vic-Maui race. Again with the kite up in over 35 knots of wind, but with sunshine, T-shirts, shorts, and some Mai Tais less than an hour away, it was much less stressful.

 

[Peppermint]

Re: In a monohull

18.6 knots. None of your dinghy/ racing cat nonsense.

 

[bbg]

Re: In a monohull

Who has been talking about catamarans?

 

[doris]

18.5 kts. Mount Gay 30, W Solent, 1 reef in the main, 1.5oz Asym Spinnaker and 40 kts true up the bum. The eventual wipeout was spectacular!!

 

[Lakesailor]

40 knots up the bum!

I hope they weren't Turks Heads.

 

[tcm]

dear oh dear julie, never even been on a Hobie? Make powerboating seem very safe and sane....