Excellent on-the-water speed comparison between Tornado (sailed by none other than Glen Ashby & Darren Bundock!!), 18 ft Skiff & a Volvo Extreme 40:
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Awesome!
Enjoy!
its actually bundy and caroline on the T
Macca
The video captures elements of high performance sailings present and future. The Ausie 18's represent a gran prix circuit that is successful. the IShares V40's look like they are gaining momentum... the Tornado has had the Olympic stage.
So, the Olympics are off the table for 4 years... funding streams for the cat elite sailors have always focused on the gold medal hunt... What now?
Is there room for a gran prix cat scene in Australia?
Is the Ishares extreme 40 series going to be the next Holy Grail for the elite guys?
Is their a Euro gran Prix F18 or Tornado series in the works?
Do the big ocean races become the focus?
Anybody thought of a way to leverage the AC in 2009 with the C class or any other production cat match racing circuit? Would this be appealing enough to become the elite focus of the cat world?
Is there any consensus forming?
TIA
Anybody thought of a way to leverage the AC in 2009 with the C class or any other production cat match racing circuit? Would this be appealing enough to become the elite focus of the cat world?
I like this idea.
The AC event could be apropriate to start a
Multihulls in the Olympics
campaign.
I recall Cayard and Couts are trying to get a 70' cat circut going over in Europe, any word on how that's coming along? Add that to the Volvo X-40's the C cats, etc. I would hope the -establishment- might start looking at speed vs. cost vs. fun vs. crew required, etc.