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    A Cat Worlds Sopot

    A little bit of local content from Sopot... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2RejMpWWHRiR0wwZDN6WWxyQTg/view?usp=drivesdk  I hope the link works:) Should be more detailed interviews and techy boat bits to come. The players are starting to arrive and new boats are coming in from the Exploder...
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    2016 Mount Gay Round Barbados Race

    It was taken off my head-cam Gopro. Phaedo didn't have her foil down and as we had just gybed onto starboard she had to dial up and get behind us so the nose went down. I got a great view. There's a few more pics and a vid to go with the whole race.
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    2016 Mount Gay Round Barbados Race

    Simply stunning, shorts and T-shirt close quarters blasting on fantastic boats That was one of the best races I've ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Beating Phaedo was never going to be easy. As all good races should be, it was on right from the pre-start. The trade winds were in and...
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    C Class Catamaran Design

    Ah, the ol' "Mothamaroe" concept. There's a few options to this approach. It started as an obvious first shot blend of a conventional C-class and a Moth i.e. just sling it (most likely a version of a moth concept) underneath and drop all the other C-class foils off. Whilst considering this and...
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    Gunboat G4 Foiler

    Sailing on Paradox. Interesting day with a wide range of conditions. Big, heavy rain squalls coming over the island on the preceding night with big calmish periods afterwards. We put the code Zero on the boat in the morning in prep. Another big squall washed over the fleet during the start...
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    Sailrocket 3 - The Offshore version

    No, neither of those. There's still a few vids of some of the first boats hairier moments that we haven't posted. I guess all this belongs in another thread really. Posting a video of a boat running up a beach at speed is about as un-"off-shore" as it gets!
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    Sailrocket 3 - The Offshore version

    19 knots Pfhhhh... We parked the first one at nearly twice that... and then came out and broke our first world record a few runs later ... new foil and underpants though;) Got a great video of it here somewhere.
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    Sailrocket 3 - The Offshore version

    Hi SAists, well if it's any consolation... I feel like I'm letting you down by not doing any updates. It's not like I haven't written a few... and then scrubbed them before posting. The trouble is that we are looking at a whole different ball game now. With speed sailing we weren't really...
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    Sailrocket 3 - The Offshore version

    Hi all, apologies for keeping you in suspense. An update is long overdue. I can only assure you that it is not due to lack of activity. I'm as obsessed with this boat as I ever was with the previous two. The challenge of developing and designing an offshore concept that is just all-round...
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    Sailrocket 3 - The Offshore version

    Sitting down in Toy-town, Lorient at the end of a fine line of thoroughbred multihulls all getting Rhum'd up. Very inspiring. I'm constantly picturing in my doing the dimensional maths and trying to picture what a big SR3 would look like amongst these pigeons. I'm not even sure how it would fit...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    The food does need some explaining. The original idea was that we would all eat the original food. It needs to be mentioned that Shackleton and his men... for the purpose of this trip, were relatively well equipped with food and starving was not an issue. Actually cooking and keeping it down...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    Hi Fairwinds and Phillysailor, The role of the MD was a very interesting dynamic within this expedition. It really highlighted the problems of trying to re-create a legendary feat of survival in a modern world. I believe there was confusion and communication issues here. I don't want to say who...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    We had a fuel cell for generating electricity. You could barely notice it in action. It gave off a slight hum but otherwise I paid little attention to it. It was all hidden away. That was all Sebs responsibility. He topped it up every few days and it performed very well. All of that stuff was...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    Yeah it was pretty cramped all round on that boat. We used the ol' bucket-and-chuckit method with everyone having their own preferred methods. Typically the helmsman would move forward and steer from the main hatch and give the cockpit over to the man and his bucket. I'm not sure exactly how...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    I think Tims feet would have come good... although I wouldn't be surprised if their was some lingering permanent damage. It mightn't be dramatic... but never quite right. I think they were a bit that way in the first place. It took my hands a long time (3-4 months) to get back to normal. The...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    I think they chose the mizzen mast option over the Tiller system. Obviously the mizzen would interfere with the tiller... although after sailing with it, I know I would try and rig up something... anything to make it more manageable. The boat had its nice moments at the helm.. but not many...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    Amazingly the screws did hold up... and they didn't do a bad job either. They literally were wood screws through leather soles. the guys definitely did suffer in those boots as against modern ones... but they weren't slipping and sliding about. There was definitely no obvious trail across this...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    Not sure Clean... I wouldn't be surprised if there were some subtle differences. I've had friends mention parts from the Australian version that I didn't see in the UK.
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    We had debated whether to push on in or not given that we were uncertain of our longitude due to a questionable morning sun-sight. We had actually chosen to heave to the previous night in an effort to try and sight land during the following day. It turned out that the visibility the next day...
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    Chasing Shackleton TV Series

    We tried to get genuine Burberry jackets but ended up getting the next best thing. We spent ages rubbing in Dubbin and various oils to try and seal it. We each had our own techniques. I often wondered what they used as I'm sure there was a real technique to it. It did make it relatively...


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