Tacking

Another interesting day on the water yesterday. Not a lot of wind, so I got a chance to get to know the boat in lowriding mode. There was just some 4 knots of about, with some gust. I got foiling 3 times in 3 hours of sailing, enough to clock a daily top speed of [...]

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Just 19.8 knots today

No record breaking yet today. Winds were very light in the morning, so I used the low wind setting on the prodder. This helped a lot to flip the battens while tacking, making manouvres a lot easier. Flying only happened halfwind, , and after a while I started doing some upwind/downwinds to see if I [...]

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Sailing my new Prowler

After the last 2 days of sailing my new boat (a prowler 4 with all the good bits, bought from Mark Robinson) my body needs a rest. So, time for some reflections.
Comparing my 1998 Frizz lowrider to a Prowler 4
This new boat is of a different planet. The Prowler is a lot stiffer. This makes [...]

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20.5 knots on my fourth day out!

I got back from holidays yesterday, so it was time to get flying today. Some 10-12 knots of wind blowing with some gusts to maybe 18-ish. The Garmin showed 20.5 knots as best speed!!! And this is just my fourth time sailing the new boat! I’m not sure of the speeds on the Garmin though, [...]

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Garda photos up

My pics from Garda can be found at Flickr. Not so many, as I left my camera after the pasta dinner. Lucky I got it back some days later. But there’s many more people that took photos.
Also, I hope to lay my hands on 15 (!) digital video tapes that were made from the German [...]

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First sail on home lake

After a long sleep I went to Gronau to rig the boat and get some first flying in on my home lake. It took me 4 hours to get everything back together (and explain to the sailors at the club what everything is .
It seems to be much easier to fly without the Garda [...]

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Back home

Mission completed. Prowler home and paid for. Got home after a much too long drive through Germany. I wanted to drive back in one day. But I had just seen too much highway after 12 hours on the road, so I pitched my tent in Wetzlar (some 350 km’s from home).
The worlds was a great [...]

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