Vestas Sailrocket

[Fat Point Jack]

The season begins again!

http://www.sailrocket.com/blogs

 

[cynophobe]

This is the one Larso go gettem.

 

[mojounwin]

There be some interesting times ahead. Go Team VSR!

Cheers

Mojo

 

[cynophobe]

http://www.shackletonepic.com/

Surprised no one has picked up on this yet.Talk about extremes.

Didn't quite get the link right ,check out the crew list.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

That's one crazy wing. A picture of it without the top piece:

 

[cynophobe]

Larso's 60 knt foil pre baking and finnishing.

 

[Amati]

Having mulled over the advantages of the segmented wing with bungie cords concept a few years ago, I'm stoked.

Kick ass guys!

 

[Kenny Dumas]

Averaged 45, peak over 51 knots today in 25 knots of wind with the new foils working well.

 

[cynophobe]

just another 50 knt run.Very cool

 

[Amati]

+1

Mr Smith is smiling.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

It looks a lot more firmly attached to the water than the last one. Also looks to be capable of more speed.

 

[Raked Aft\\]

They've got to push the power.

Either bigger wing or more wind. Otherwise I think they're maxing out the setup.

 

[cynophobe]

Got to with in 1/2 a knot of the record ,c'mon Larsso send it.

 

[Tropical Madness]

Nice work!!

 

[paularsen1]

Sending it as hard as we can! The fact we can handle the boat in 34 knots of wind speaks volumes for the new boat. As mentioned, we shouldn't need that sort of grunt but it's a nice card to pull if you have to. Now we have to do some speed sailing forensics to find out where the 'brick-wall' of drag at 52 knots is coming from. We need sweet release! Video from yesterday coming soon. No sailing today.

 

[mojounwin]

It's great to see you guys back out there. I check the updates every morning to see if the mission has been accomplished.

Cheers

Mojo

 

[paularsen1]

Here's the video from yesterday.


We still have plenty of tricks to play with. Funny that we have tried around 6 different foils of wildly different shapes and sizes on two boat... and always seem to hit the same speed. Need to work this one out!

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

...Funny that we have tried around 6 different foils of wildly different shapes and sizes on two boat... and always seem to hit the same speed. Need to work this one out!

That wall at around 50 knots may be unrelated to your boat. It's just a wall. Powerboaters notoriously misoverestimate the speed of their craft, but if you actually clock them, you find that exceeding 50 knots is not all that easy. The answer is generally the same as in other speed contests: more power and less weight.

So you need more power! Try to keep it in the water this time! Good luck!

 

[Amati]

SailRocket is starting to get that hard slapping bounce that hydroplanes get. That's got to be good. Seems hydros go for WIG lift to get out of the the water more than foils, which seem to be used more for tracking?

Wondering about what looks like a fair bit of Aero wetted surface too. Maybe it just takes an oooch to get through that?

Go SailRocket!