A quick update folks, we had Patient Lady IV back on the water this past Saturday for a few hours.
Conditions were "spicy" for us out there with gusts over 25 knots on the odd occassion. Our chase boat pegged us at a sustained 25 knots boat speed on a few runs across the harbour. As a rule we don't go out to race in more than 20 knots wind speed.
We had a few scares with the boat getting a little wild on us.
Unfortunately on what was to be the last run of the day we blew up our camber control in the middle of a very large puff, when we were already going about as fast as we could. When the camber control broke we went from as depowered as we could be to as powered up as we could in about .02 seconds. I instantly blew the sheet off to slow up down but by then we had already broken out #3 element on the wing and poked numerous holes in the skin.
So we'l lbe back on the water hopefully within about 2 weeks.
