You tube video F14
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Cool vid.
Keep up the good work Darryl.
Hope to see some AO's on the east coast
Good stuff! I especially like the second half at the regatta! What regatta was that and were there two F14's? Was one or both using the T foil rudders?
There are actually three different Alpha's featured on the video.
The shots that I think you are referring to are with two Alpha's in the one race, both with green spinnakers.
The first 1/2 to 2/3s of the video is of the Alpha's before we had fitted T foils and the last section has them both with T foils. The race with the two Alpha's was shot at a club heat at Adelaide sailing club where they race in
Division one
against all the NACRA 5.8's, A class, F16's, F18's, etc, on yardstick (in which race the first cat on yardstick was one of the Alpha's, and the other came third) Over the line they were second and fourth respectively. The two sailers on those two Alpha’s weigh 85kgs and 95kgs respectively – so no great “lightweights” – it just goes to demonstrate the versatility of the Alpha when it comes to weight carrying and to still able to be competitive.
COOL VID.... fast little buggers...
fast little buggers
says it all in three words
will we see these in the
U.S. at some point?
cool vid...
Only way thay I can see the Alpha in the US is if someone wants to build them there? (if that happened then we would buy them from the states)
The exchangs rate between the US dollar and the Australian dollar would seem to make them too
pricey
at the moment
Just a relatively short time ago the Australian dollar was only at 55c US but it is now almost at parity which is a selling export
killer
.
I'd sell my 18 Hobie for one of the ''fast little buggers''
I learned on a 14 Hobie~~ had alotta fun, but NO comparison to these.... <img src=
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Ahh!! Memories of the first sail on a Hobie 14. It felt like it was going to break the sound barrier, and now when I look at the relative difference between the Hobie 14 and the Alpha F14 with the Alpha rated some 28.5 minutes faster in every 100 minutes on the water than the Hobie 14 (even 2.5 minutes faster than the Hobie 18), it really puts into perspective just how far we have come with the Alpha F14 from those early days of 14’ cat sailing!
Hey Darryl..... How did ya make out on that bet ??
I came across the other ''site''
Do these cats come in boxes?? send me one !! LOL <img src=
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No takers on the bet, and why would you want a
box
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''BOX'' as in shippin crate... I'll put it toghter in my yard........... <img src=
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Just joking.
Like the saying years ago by NACRA sailers -
I'd rather sail the box a NACRA came in than sail a Hobie
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Darryl,
the bumps are pretty shameless, try a subtle note or comment.
But! But! ---- I am shameless and definitely not subtle, and that comes with authority from my wife of 46 years, - I still introduce her as my
first wife
- hows that for being subtle? Besides I have been a sailer all my life so I guess that automatically rules out
shame and subtlety
completely?
see that wasn't so hard was it?
Your right, this
ruse
of small meaningless entries really works If it isn’t bumped occasionally the post just gets buried two or more pages back in one day. Bummer.
Hey Darryl why didn't you get to Sauna sail? <img src=
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regards
Two reasons (maybe three if the price of petrol counts twice)
Firstly, it was so cold the first time that we went I just couldn’t talk Antony and/or Emile to “freeze their nuts off” over there again, (regardless of what Garry says and despite the fact that it really is a great weekends racing)
Secondly the price of petrol (we are personally delivering two AO F14’s across to Perth in a couple of weeks and I shudder at the petrol bill – especially if we did both trips)
Obviously going onto bigger & better...... <img src=
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Well Marcus you MAY be half right???
But which half.....
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Well.....Darryl allways said that bigger is better <img src=
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Does your wife agree with that Marcus??? (or does she say that
size doesn't matter, it's what you do with it that counts
)
Living in sin means no wife <img src=
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I think the small boys (F14)use the excuse
quality not quanitity
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Turned out it wasn't that cold over there except the middle of the night. Are they the first AO14's into WA?
When we last went to
The Sauna Sail
it was a great regatta but, it WAS cold!
yes these are the first AO F14's into the west.