R Class on TV3 and Foils complete a race distance
by paul
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last modified
2009-02-02T20:37:07+13:00
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.
3 News Report
David Di Somma and his team had ideal conditions for filming on Sunday the 25th. The harbour produced a nice 16kt NE with a small chop . The report and video are available on the 3 News website.Foiling L3 does Horizon Job
On Saturday 24th of January, the foiling R Class completed its first official race distance and did a horizon job on the rest of the fleet. Sean Milner and Dan Leech easily won the 2 lap Parsons Rock harbour race. Paul Roe and Jess Hix on TheVirtual were a comfortable second, but well over ten minutes behind. If it hadn't been for a couple of dramas on L3 the margin would have been much greater: they lost quite a bit of time rethreading the mainsheet on the first run when it went out through the blocks, and even more on the second beat when Sean had to swim 50m back to the capsized boat after falling overboard.TheVirtual crew had a clean race and pushed the whole way, but the conventional R was totally outclassed by Sean and Dan on foils. After one lap L3 was just dropping its kite at the bottom mark as TheVirtual gybed at the Cashin Quay breakwater. We're now really starting to see the potential of the foils.