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    Posted: 10 Jan 08 at 6:57pm

Forget your "best 100m" speed. POM averaged 20.54 over 1Km !!!!!

kts over 1km!!!

 



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and this is him doing it...
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nice pic, looks great fun
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Not as fast as an Albacore though
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And i bet thats only down hill once it has to go up hill average speed would probably be 8 knots!  Good in a drag race but thats about it!
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Over there the 12's beat good I14's around the track! Once in the know-how, 12's are actually pretty quick upwind!!!
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Originally posted by Merlinboy

it has to go up hill average speed would probably be 8 knots! 

If you look at the colour codes on the trace they were getting above 9 for a good half ofthe time upwind, so I think probably better than that.
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Originally posted by andy_cherub

Over there the 12's beat good I14's around the track! Once in the know-how, 12's are actually pretty quick upwind!!!

 

Going off that GPS track quick isnt a word i would use for up wind!

And are you actually saying that the 12 is faster then the 14 round the course Andy??  
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Originally posted by Merlinboy

Going off that GPS track quick isnt a word i would use for up wind!

And are you actually saying that the 12 is faster then the 14 round the course Andy??  

Aaaaaaargh!

Not this again!

Just go out and bl**dy well have a race, sort it out once and for all.

 
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Thats the word from the other side of the world - yes. & personally I can say we are faster up and downwind than an I14 in sub 10 knots with our no1 rig. But the boats still very very new to us and we are still learning! At least now we can get it driving upwind!!!

So give it a couple of yrs til the UK fleet are upto speed, or wait a couple of years til those guys come over there den race them!!

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