Hello dear Marc,

When speed topics come out, there's a great stuff of SILLY FANTASY that also surges out from minds...

Of course, with very flat waters, a good drifter that pushes well, the crew hanging back with their feet near the transom, +4° bow-up trim, 25kt could be hit sometimes. The spanish Olympic Team was a specialist of "everyone sitting back the rear beam" attitude to make Tornado planning and so go beyond 21 kt...

14 years ago approximatively, a inter-series Challenge was put up by an aussie newspaper to point out what's really the quickest dinghy down under. 18ft skiffs, Tornado with spis, NACRA and so on were all here...with "The EDGE", the 1987 C-Class of Lindsay Cunningham...when the first Tornado crossed the line, C-Class crew was enjoying big fresh "FOSTER's" cans at beach's bar till 13 minutes....

BUT 33 kt, it's PURE FANCY !!!!! I have reliable speed records on ORMA 60 big trimarans like SODEBO, GROUPAMA, ect... and maximum top hit was 32.4 kt !

I am ready to register anyone with a SC 20 that could hit 30 kt and send him a "Cordon Rouge" MUMM Jumbo Magnum Bottle of Champaign !!!!

FRIENDLY YOURS,
Frenchie