On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:41:48 GMT, in message
2008070800414850073-jerelull@maccom
Jere Lull wrote:

On 2008-07-03 12:47:10 -0400, "Kapt Krunch" said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1o6...eature=related

Gawd! He was looking *down* at the instruments, sailing *them* not the boat!

I like my instruments and find them useful in making the boat perform.
I don't know what he was looking at, but we saw that most of the
instruments were mounted forward where he could see them without
losing the larger forward view.

Still, he needed to be looking over his shoulder and setting the
rudder before it loaded up. That late response did no good and
probably ate some life out of the rudder bearings. I also wonder why
the main trimmer wasn't dumping the main when rudder control was lost.
Maybe s/he was the one with the camera.

The amount of steering action didn't look odd to me, even for a fairly
conservative boat with a keel aspect ratio of 1. It might have been
easier to steer with less lift surface up high and more weight at the
bottom.

Other than that, it looked like a great downhill ride, although the
boat looked like it should be surfing faster than 10 in those
conditions.

Mind you, my perspective is biased towards going fast and spinning out
now and then.

Ryk