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WnW.... freckless is a SA adjective for things we dont understand. Sadly one of our leading foiling fraternity has sold his foiler... a freckless decision... no he has not gone to Weta but a slick new Classic innovated with a double skin mainsail that surely must raise eyebrows of the A Class...

What freckless bullshit. Real A Class foil around the race course at least 30% faster than Classics.

Wind no better today, seas have risen, add rain and hangover.  Wind limits are irrelevant if the support craft cannot launch, which is the case here with no beach and waves pounding the seawall. The chief inspection officer can retire to the Anchorage....or is that where he woke up?

R1 postponed to 10am Monday. +22knts after warning signal at 12 midday today, moderated soon after but  3 masts down spooked RC. 

That wind means Foiling gybez on day1 of Nationals. Seen at McCrae

You kept that transgression quiet until now.... Are you sure he didnt have the port side rudder on starboard box? 

So, two different courses, two different beers. If I have a foiler and drink a classic beer, does this make me flop? ...and i thought it was the rake adjustment.

Two consecutive regattas _Aus Nats and Worlds Separate courses for flyers and classics at the worlds. Plan is one course in Nats 

Heating up in Oz..... New boats, new names, familiar names, big names heading north. Bookies have Gashby and Stevie as favourites. Who else in the top 5?  From Outeridge, Tuke, Mischa, then the Bs....Burling, Bradshaw, Brewer, Bundy, Beattie, Big Dave, Bags, Bulka, Benson And the Classics...

Dougy the Gun! Theres a name not heard on MA for a while DtG last seen in embryonic stages of dominating short fat A Class, and cross training in Australias Ninja Warrior. Both stepping stones to taking on the Classic division. With such a rich pedigree in A Class we all thought he was the next...

Portarlington. Buy him a new clipboard and a case of coronas ignore that sonofa b

Before there was foiling, we had skimming. Skimming was disruptive too. So was trapezing downhill and the wildthing.  Bring back the good old classic days with reaches, runs and nosedives.

SS, there were 2 different radius and lengths on DNA C boards. Both had success. My take was the shorter more curved boards were better for skimming. Havent got measurements sorry.   I reckon your proposed solution of shortening your boards to measure in 0.75 is fine. You could even move top...

On rake, the original C slider had about 12mm travel. The J boards use heaps more rake to create lift to fly.   You wont need the full travel to get skimming. Too much rake in windy the c will lift out and step sid3ways. Exciting but slow. Beware that at zero rake in windy the boat can trip...

The original C boards entered and exited  through the hull centreline. The j boards may have changed this. If you use the converted cases check your tips dont go closer than 0.75m from platform centreline.

 Scotty refitted C boards into J2 slots. Not ideal but Scott made it work. He went wild rather than trapezed. He also used a DS with wishbone boom hung from central gooseneck. He explains side hung booms overstress masts pushing out of column in the region with downhaul adding compression. 

Glenn was more than 50% faster most of that race. He couuld foil 80% of the race when most floated 100%. Stevie marinally less on foils. Awexsome to watch

3 races today 075* 8 to 14. Brad F1 won one Stevie two  Ashby 3x 2nd. Tight at the top

X2 broken masts beatie and jonno, and several sore sailors  gusts awere 20 Nathan capsized in lead  brewin n ashby stopped after 2 laps saw dave nzl going for third lap and gave chase  brewin got by Top 7 foil uphill and clear out