To me it looks more like he is doing his best to stay on the boat, or he have just jumped aboard.. Why is he on your boat barefoot?

You, on the other hand, seriously need to work on your "war face" (joke).

Chosing between Christa and this lad should be a no brainer..


Nice pictures Wouter, the whole set!

Rolf,





It may be the case that I did very much accellerate away there. In the surf speed is everything and I really do need to tell any crew that they really need to be quick about it. As my boat will just bolt away as soon as the sails have attached flow. Especially when no-one is on it. (or just one man)




He likes to sail that way




Yeah I didn't have any time to paint my face with more agressive motives.





Okay guys, the lady is starting to blush and feel uncomfortable now !

So quit droling over the pics will you !

Wouter

NEVAR!!!!

Wouter:
What is up with that purple "thing" you are wearing? Whatever it is, it makes your trapeze harness look like a big diaper .
And why dont you and your crew wear any gloves?

BTW, I saw a Taipan 4.9 at a short long-distance race last weekend (#186???). It was interesting to see how the FX1 compared to the 4.9. With Force 4 winds they where probably advantaged by sailing two-up, having a jib, and maybe having some more experience.
They finished 12th, I finished 16th (Out of 38).
Not to big a difference to upgrade I guess

It is a spray overall. The top 1/3 is green and the botton 2/3 is purple. I used to have a green bouyancy aid with that both that one died some time ago. The stuff I'm wearing is old. The wetsuit, which you can't see, is from later 1970's and the Trapeze harness (diaper) is of about 1975.





Yep, I've heard similar comments before. This is however still the best harness I ever wore, with the possible exception of long distance races. Here I use my magic marine harness with inproved back support.

Laugh all you want, I'm not going to change harnesses. The oldy I'm wearing is called "a Tony" after its maker. A elite group of sailor will know immediately what is meant by a "Tony". I think the guy stopped making these over 20 years ago.




I can only speak for myself. I forget to put them on in the hurry to get to that start line.





That was Geert Ruesink and his crew Raymond.




Rumour has it that the Taipan was second around the top mark !

Were you sailing singlehanded, with spi ?





Yeah and those extra 80 kg of weight (crew) on board was an advantage as well. This sounds alot like the typical arguments to explain why some other crew wasn't doing better.





Sounds like a good result. Do you have a link to the full results ?

I assume these are the handicapped results and not the elapsed time listing ?

Will be interesting to look at the elapsed times.




Are you basing that conclusion upon the HANDICAPPED results listing ? I mean the whole point of handicapping is to take out the inequalities between boats. Under the assumption of comparable skills you will have to end up next to one-another on the listing even though one design of the two may be way faster then the other.

Unless I'm mistaken and you were giving elapsed time placings (no handicap corrections)


Are you going to Jazz and Sail ?

Wouter

Hagara/Steinacher sailed in their pyjamas, wore a genuine TONY and became Olympic Champion on the tornado !!!
See picture.

They not only use a Tony girdle but combine that with net stockings: a winning combination I would say.

From this side it certainly lookes like (well-filled) diapers

Yes, uni and spi...



The T4.9 is about 50kgs lighter than the FX1, so the overall weight with crew and all is probably about the same. Its just that with crew you can push a little bit harder, especially with the kite up when you can point higher.




I'll PM you with my email adres, reply to that and I'll send you the full results. (Excel file).



Yes, handicapped.



Nope, we're running our own cat regatta here in Medemblik. But will you goto Pampus? The current entries say there's gonna be a Mystere F16 competing...

Cya,

I figure that you were sailing at 230 kg and Geert/Raymond were sailing at 265 kg. Not really the same but also not enough to cause to big inequalities. Afterall you said that it was blowing force 4 (13 - 15 knots) and then weight differences are not too important.




Well personally, in force 4 winds, I wouldn't overrate these things. Especially not on the 2 mtr deep lakes you were sailing. I would expect a singlehanded uni-rig with spi to do rather well here. At least according to my own experience sailing solo in such conditions. Of course by the same reasoning as you give, you yourself will have an advantage by pointing higher upwind and pointing deeper downwind under kite.

Are there inequalities ? Yes I think so, however I also feel that most will cancel one another out when taken over a whole upwind/downwind course. Similar experiences seem to have surfaced at the UK nationals as well. But of course this is all a personal intepretation of the situation and without in depth 1 to 1 testing between F16 and FX-one we won't know for sure.



And having said all this. The rating difference between a two-up F16 and an singlehanded FX-one is (102 to 107) = 5 points = 5 % in time. This in itself is not very big; only 3 minutes per hour racing. Hence we invite FX-one's etc to race first in wins with us and always have done so as sailor skill can overcome this difference relatively easy.

The final placings suggest that you finished a little later than 5% but not too much later. So yes the Texel handicap appears to be validated when going on this Rondje Fluessen race data. No real surprises there. You said :"not enough to upgrade" and I can understand that. It isn't. But when deciding between a F16 and FX-one, when you haven't either one already, then this difference will be sufficient grounds to favour the first.

Actually I think this comparison to be very good fun. Especially since the sailarea's between FX-one and F16 are the same. So too the mast height and the width is only different by 4 % = neglectable. Even the hull length difference is not that big ; waterlength difference = 0.23 mtr (10 inches) = 4.6 %. Real diffences are only the overall weight, the mast section and the hullshapes (when comparing the older Taipan to the new wave-piercer hull of the FX-one).

It will be even more fun to directly compare the Blade F16 and FX-one to one another. Because they share the same modern hullshape leaving only the mast section and overall weight as differences. Even the shape of the mainsails (large squaretops will be very similar then)

But I guess we still have to wait a little while for that.





Darn, for some reason we always seem to miss eachother.

Pampus ? That is under consideration, but very much tentative at this time.

Mystere F16 ? Gee, I haven't seen that boat in real life for about 4 years.


Wouter