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Leander 2010 Super Cup Sprint Series kite run, 14 Feb, 2009

Short course fleet racing downwind leg.

Leander 2010 Super Cup Sprint Series kite run, 14 Feb, 2009

Short course fleet racing downwind leg.

Leander 2010 Super Cup Sprint Series, 14 Feb, 2009

Short course fleet racing. This clip features some extreme crew commitment

R607 TheVirtual first flight, 3 May 2009

Jess and Paul test fly the first set of prepreg carbon hydrofoils.

Hydrofoil two boat testing, 4 Jan 2009

Lyttelton, 4 January 2009. 16kts, flat water. R 603 - L3 (on foils), Sean Milner and Dan Leech. R607 - TheVirtual (headcam), Paul Roe and Steve MacIntosh.

Hydrofoil two boat testing in Charteris Bay

Charteris Bay, Lyttelton, 27 December 2008. 20+kts. Boat boats reefed. R 603 - L3 (on foils), Sean Milner and Dan Leech. R607 - TheVirtual (headcam), Paul Roe and Aaron Jefferies. Height control is working really well with the revised cable routing and modified wand mechanism. The boat was stable and really easy to sail in the quite strong conditions.

R607 TheVirtual Charteris Bay

Charteris Bay, Lyttelton, 27 December 2008. 20+kts, flat water. Rig reefed and small kite. R607 - TheVirtual, Paul Roe and Aaron Jefferies.

Hydrofoil two boat testing

Lyttelton 13 December 2008. R 603 - L3 (on foils), Sean Milner and Dan Leech. R607 - TheVirtual (headcam), Paul Roe and Jess Hix. R609 - International Rope Braids (just passing by), Kevin Holland and Doug Gale

R607 TheVirtual kite run.

Lyttelton, 13 December 2008. 20kts of breeze with fairly flat water, view from headcam. Sailed by Paul Roe and Jess Hix.

Older Clips

Movie format

MPEG1, Picture Size: 160 x 120, Data rate: 50k/sec, 25.00 fps

They should be playable with Quicktime, MS ActiveMovie etc


These Clips were taken at Pt Jerningham 2002 in a very strong Southerly breeze. Note these are Quicktime files
Video: Michael Garlick - onshore

Stagecoach

Stagecoach - Steve Hogg and Neill Wood - 34sec (704k) great stuff from the lads

Stagecoach

Stagecoach - Steve Hogg and Neill Wood - 10sec (214k) probably the most spectacular bit of (almost) sailing on the web


These Clips were taken on 26/12/2001 in a strong 25Kt NE breeze with a fairly large sea
Video: Smith Family - onshore

Subwoofer R 595 - Paul Roe and Steve Fortune - 22sec (1.1M) too much zoom and too far away, but fast

Pork Sword - Ashton and Lance Smith - 19sec (990k)


These clips are from the 1997 Leander at Worser Bay and are taken from the cinematic treat "R Class Promotional Video"

Camera: Brendon Hogg

Editing: Andrew (Mungbean) McMillan

Stealth - 14sec (689k)

Dimension Polyant & Apple Computers - 9sec (459k)

92 More FM - 12sec (621k)

Design Source & Academy Interprint - 14sec (687k)


1999 Leander Trophy in Wellington Harbour.

Apologies for the haze in Race 5 (it was raining really hard!)

Footage from Race 4 and Race 5 (off the wind)

C Tech, Design Source and Chemical Weapon - 15sec (791k)

C Tech (Alex Vallings and Andrew Meikeljohn) lead Design Source (Paul MacIntosh and Kenny Fyfe) in Race 4

C Tech and Chemical Weapon (Sean Milner and Steve MacIntosh) in Race 5

Dimension Polyant - 17sec (855k)

Tim Bartlett and Brett Gray show how its done in Race 5

The Virtual Marina (Blue Zoo) - 14sec (669k)

Paul de Lisle and Richard Dreverman


1999 Leander Sprint Series

C Tech and Stagecoach - 9sec (457k)

Stagecoach (Steve Hogg and Neill Wood) overtake C Tech in Race 1 of the Sprints

Dimension Polyant - 15sec (769k)

Dimension at speed (again)

Dimension Polyant, Witchdoctor and AMI Insurance - 11sec (581k)

Dimension, Witchdoctor (Dave Pairman and Tim Allen) and AMI (Conan Hunt and Michael) on the wind.

Total Trust - 15sec (785k)

15 seconds of Total Trust (Sally and a ring-in crew)


This Clip was taken on 22/1/2000 in a moderate NE breeze
Video: Paul Harrison
Pilot: Jony "I know where to place the boat" Smith

Meridian Energy and Chemical Weapon - 16sec (841k)

More clips to come ...
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what's an r class skiff?

Extreme performance, light weight, skiff style, development dinghy class in the truest sense (see the rules for details).

Length 3.9m (max)
Hull no minimum weight (typically 29-35kg painted), 1.4m minimum width
Construction Unrestricted (typically ultra lightweight Carbon/Foam)
Rig Unrestricted - typically two spreader pre-bent carbon spar
Foils Unrestricted
Working Sails Area is restricted 13m2 - construction and rig plan are unrestricted - ie. wings, pocket luff, rotating masts are all acceptable
Kite 20m circumference resulting in a 30-36m2 surface area
Crew 2 (minimum) on trapeze
 
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