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| This boat has an interesting aluminum keel fin, it appears to flex significantly under heel, I'll be interested to see how it does on the water... |
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| Mark Smith of Virginia replaces a servo in his self-built "Dark Matter", essentially a scaled down Albacore made of 6 oz. carbon with a light fiberglass overlay. |
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| An AC boat was also present, but lost it's rudder...AC boats have no servo restrictions, note the jib twitcher! |
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| Nice view with keel... |
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| Sail winch, rudder, jib twitcher, oh my! |
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| A discussion of the finer points of leech control... |
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| Skippers search for wind. |
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| Had a chance to visit with Craig Huzway of Breaking Wind Boats and sail his Paqinto, essentially a scaled down Pikanto with a swing rig. In trials the boat seemed pretty fast, I was able to wring a lot of performance out of it. |
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| Swing Rigs seem popular, and relatively easy to tune. I found the principles of vane sailing strangely applicable to getting in the groove with the swing rig... |
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| The wind came up eventually, and it was a beautiful afternoon for those wanting to get ready for tomorrow... |
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| White Rock Lake, with a portion of downtown Dallas rising up in the background... |
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