Tiger Trophy

Originally posted by Roy Race Originally posted by marksey Originally posted by Jamie600   "It could have been the dense cold breeze that you tend to get in the winter, which can make the breeze feel stronger"     Lol i love how ppl role this one out, i guess if you go to the north pole the air is like treacle? nothing to do with air density all to do with wind shear, i think if i heard the RO say that i would have been concerned   Not quite like treacle, but more dense, yes. What's not to understand? One cubic Metre of air at 30degreesC has a mass of 1.17kg, a cubic metre of air at 0degreesC has a mass of 1.29Kg. That's a 10% difference. For the same speed, a cubic metre of 0degreesC air flowing over your sails will impart more energy than a cubic metre of 30degreesC air flowing over your sails, because it is heavier. There's simply more stuff going round your sails.

but if air was as 'thick' as treacle would we really sail faster?

Edited by asterix - 07 Feb 11 at 5:12pm

It was stupidly windy, i don't kow how windy it was, but the waves and water temprature made it very tricky.  I had major brain freeze after spudily not wearing a hat.  I have certainly not sailed in much like it before, for the hour we were out upwind was mental.  Olly got washed off the boat, which is mad on a lake.  It was impossible for us with knackered rudder fittings meaning we had no control and the rudder was fully loaded upp and a kicker that was fully on but in hindsight only about half the kicker needed due to the fitting pulling out.  We did however manage to sail the boat back to shore hiking it flat with my foot holding the rudder somehwere near central which i was chuffed about.

I see from the report that Smithy went away from the Tiger £1k better off. Nice.  I can't think of any other dinghy races in the UK that pay this sort of money?   

Talking to some rib drivers in the changing rooms on Sunday they were getting 40knot readings over a reasonable time frame.  Definitely wasn't 20knots average on either day by any means.  The lulls might have been 20 but some of those gusts were lethal!  Very happy boat and me made it round in one piece!