2008 - 2009 Season
R Class Skiff News and Programme for the 2008-2009 Season
- 2008 - 2009 Season R Class Skiff Pictures
- Photos from events throughout the season
- L3 hydrofoils underway!
- Construnction of the L3 hrdrofoils are welll underway.
- Find out about the new hydrofoils
- An informative article on the new R Class hydrofoils
- Sean and Dan Fly
- The first brief flight was in about 10kts
- Leander 2009 - R Class Nationals from Feb 05, 2009 09:00 AM to Feb 08, 2009 04:00 PM — WBBC, Worser Bay, Wellington,
- 59th R Class Skiff National Championship
- Fourth attempt with hydrofoils a success
- Sean and Dan's latest attempt to get the L3 going on Hydrofoils proves to be a success.
- Some new videos, hydrofoil testing and a kite run
- A couple of new videos from 13 December, 2008
- Hydrofoil notes article added Jan 2009
- Some more notes on development progress, a couple of pictures and some more videos
- 4 January 2009
- Some more testing in fun conditions
- Pegasus Crest Sprint Series Jan 11, 2009 from 12:30 PM to 03:30 PM — Akaroa Sailing Club,
- R Class on TV3 and Foils complete a race distance
- TV3's David Di Somma and his crew filmed a short article on the hydrofoils which was shown during the Thursday 29th of January 3 News bulletin.
- Foiling fun for all and a carbon cook up
- Last Saturday, 14th March 2009, Lyttelton came up with a nice steady slowly building breeze. Conditions started at around 8kts and built to a nice 14kts over a couple of hours. Perfect to give a couple of us a try at the foils.
- Merde boys on foiler and foil baking progess
- Dave and Tim sail on the foiler and the first set of prepreg foils are nearly complete and the second set are well underway.
- TheVirtual Flies - Launch day for the second foiling R Class
- Sunday May 3rd 2009 dawned cool and clear. Forecast was good if a little light and the water is COLD.
- Fourth set of R foils
- The first non Canterbury set of foils will be started on soon
