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Sam.Spoons ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 12 Location: Manchester UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 3359 |
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My experience is that dinghies start to plane around 8 knots and are planing by10 knots, 12 knots feels fast. Windsurfers actually start to plane at very similar speeds* but go much faster with 25 knots being pretty achievable for an average bod like me with 28/29 knots being a bit like the 16 knot barrier TT mentions in a dinghy, passing that requires a change in technique and courage.
* As, surprisingly, does my RIB.
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Spice 346 "Flat Broke"
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423zero ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Jan 15 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3281 |
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Aero 7 seems to be becoming the dominant sail size, good turn of speed.
Nice to see the H2 represented, dedicated bunch of owners. |
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6491 |
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Those Aero's are bloody quick offwind in a blow, I was maxed on the wire in my Farr 3.7 and an Aero 7 came past me like I was stood still.
As to what the OP is looking for, join the queue, an actual factual performance list not perverted by the prevarications and gerrymandering of the illuminati on the pyag is long overdue. |
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423zero ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Jan 15 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3281 |
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Needs a spreadsheet of speeds obtained from various windspeeds, upwind, downwind. etc.
No idea what use it would be though ? Handicap racing would be governed by PY anyway. you could have the fastest dinghy in the world but still be beaten by a Topper.
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Robert
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GML ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 24 Jul 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 94 |
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RYA publishes a number of such spreadsheets to help race officers set courses that achieve a given target race time - see: http://www.rya.org.uk/racing/running-racing/speed-charts
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turnturtle ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2509 |
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I’ve had the fastest craft in the race* on one RTC Wednesday - Kona Carbone windsurf board.
Clocked over 30 knots once on that bad boy with a 7.8 double cam freerace sail - I’d like to see a 49er get anywhere near that on paper. Why then did Laser Radials beat me over the water? 1) I’m not that good 2) it was not planing conditions 3) some one put a proper beat in the course 4) top speed is a redundant in benchmarking disparate craft PY - best you’re gonna get. If you don’t value it, don’t do it anymore. I don’t. (* straight line speed, reaching) |
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Sam.Spoons ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 12 Location: Manchester UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 3359 |
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Your mistake was bringing a knife to a gunfight, you should have used a 'proper' Raceboard
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H2 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Jul 17 Online Status: Offline Posts: 733 |
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98 KM/h on a board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMJmOG5J7s
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Neptune ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Jun 09 Location: Berkshire United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
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Lol, I recall 20 knots being much less scary in my Musto than 14 knots in the 300… that was bum twitching time for sure
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