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I had a question over the weekend from a girl admiring the Mach2, and it’s sailingbits.com sticker. She asked, “so what do you guys sell… is it like… sailing… stuff?”

Yes indeed.

I’ve never really been one for clever titles. Hence the one about shiny carbon parts. Keep it simple.

We have been busy putting together a whole bunch of new carbon components.

A new 49er compass bracket is available which fits neatly onto the new carbon 49er rig. Nathan & Iain and Euan & Sam will be using them in the Delta Lloyd Regatta this week.

Then there’s the modification to the popular Moth GPS bracket to fit the foiled bars on the Mach2, and the geometry of the Prowler wing frame.

And then there’s the new lightweight adjustable carbon spreaders for the Moth. They’re well priced and give you something else to adjust, or even just a way to pimp out your boat with more clear-carbon goodness.

But wait, there’s more…

Next up is the new deck compass bracket for the Mach2 and Bladerider, and our new carbon cams which minimise the chance of the cams falling off the newer small diameter masts. They’ll likely go on sale soon but might be in limited supply for the Worlds.

Then there’s the gucci carbon trapeze handles…

It feels a bit like that. It’s not every day that you get shown the way to make your boat go so much faster, but Friday was it for me.

Amac had come up boatless for meetings in Sydney, and spent the next day on the water with me in some pretty strong breeze.

I had the chance to see how to push this boat so much harder than I’d had the balls to before. And after watching it live, talking it through, watching the footage over and over, then doing it myself the last few days… I think I’ve made a bit if a step forward.

It will take a while to finally vanquish the memory of the limping crab and the perpetual safety hunch from the mental scarring of that bottom reach in Weymouth. But if there was ever a time to do it it was yesterday.

Now, if only I can keep pushing ahead when there’s no one yelling at me to harden the f@$k up!

Race 3:

Race 4:

Race 5:

Gin sent up the full video from the Bladerider Dash for Cash… so I’ve put a few of the races up on youtube.

Always interesting to hear the commentary behind the camera. Nice.

Race 1:

Race 2:

Literally…

I’ve never actually seen a shark in all the years I’ve been sailing, and I still haven’t.

But I hit something very large yesterday. Flying along upwind the rudder connected and the boat did the instant pitchpole. There was a massive crack as it went down. I swam around to check the foils were all still connected and the gantry was there. No visible damage. The foils were fine, with not even a scratch yet there was nothing I could see in the water that I’d hit.

Very strange.

So it was either a dead body or a shark. Or a dead shark. Or something equally dramatic.