Back to school
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!
May 24th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Part of the rationale for the tilting thing was to be able to push harder offwind in chop. So far so good.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Guess we will just have to wait and see how fast you are going when I get back.
Let me know when you crack 28kts
May 24th, 2009 at 11:05 am
got up to 29.2 a couple times but i still need to harden up, race to 30…
May 28th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
we’ll give you a couple of weeks head start, we’re skippin 30 and goin straight to 33