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iain 
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 Topic: Foiling 18' skiffPosted: 04 Sep 06 at 12:45am |
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Posted: 04 Sep 06 at 8:12am |
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Just proves that you have to have something loose to sail the 18ft skiff. To put foils on a platform as already unstable as this requires some sort of insanity - beautiful insanity, but insanity none the less
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Posted: 04 Sep 06 at 8:37am |
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AWESOME!!!!
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international moth - "what what?"
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JimC
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Posted: 04 Sep 06 at 9:08am |
An 18 isn't that unsteady a platform. Especially if your starting point is a Moth. The challenge is going to be co-ordinating all three folk balancing the boat together. Edited by JimC |
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Interesting (surprising to me) that they seem to be able to survive a crash-landing and stay on the wire. Dangerous, but not half as dangerous as I imagined. It seems to need a lot of speed and a fairly extreme angle of attack in order to fly, but there's a lot of weight there. Mike |
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Posted: 04 Sep 06 at 11:44am |
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wow thats amazing!
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Needs to sail more...
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Posted: 04 Sep 06 at 12:04pm |
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The video of them tow testing was entertaining. Hard to tell from the video but it didn't seem to accelerate quite as dramatically as a moth does when it gets foiling, perhaps due to the weight. |
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Posted: 04 Sep 06 at 2:43pm |
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That is fantastically ridicolous!
 
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I like it. In the video did they use the gennaker? Is there a link you could possibly post???
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Sorry missed the links
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