Wild Oats Pittwater.

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dreamliner
dreamliner
NSW
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NSW, 110 posts
5 May 2017 7:48pm
Great day sail expo Pittwater last weekend.
Tours of Wild Oats , auxiliary motor was used to show how effective the canting keel can be , canting position
was set so boat would list to 45 degrees at wharf .
Very sparse inside.











southace
southace
SA
4795 posts
SA, 4795 posts
5 May 2017 8:54pm
Aluminium and carbon fibre is the bees knees if constucted right!
MorningBird
MorningBird
NSW
2707 posts
NSW, 2707 posts
5 May 2017 11:27pm
Canting keel is great if it doesn't fail.
I read in the current Afloat that some racing people are a bit miffed at the mega yachts using stored energy for canting keels, water ballast pumping etc. Not in the spirit of man against the elements. They called it cheating.
Agent nods
Agent nods
622 posts
622 posts
5 May 2017 9:50pm
I have no problem if the energy used is derived from the wind or man (maybe solar?), but the yachts that can only "sail" with a diesel generator running 100% of the time are not what I consider a sailing yacht. They do have amazing performance though.
boty
boty
QLD
685 posts
QLD, 685 posts
6 May 2017 9:47am
motor sailers are fine but its hardly yacht racing when the engine runs non stop to power the boat
sirgallivant
sirgallivant
NSW
1531 posts
NSW, 1531 posts
6 May 2017 10:53pm
What you are touring on and looking at on the photo is Wild Oats X.

Not Wild Oats XI.

shoodbegood
shoodbegood
VIC
873 posts
VIC, 873 posts
6 May 2017 10:57pm
The smaller older sister?
sirgallivant
sirgallivant
NSW
1531 posts
NSW, 1531 posts
6 May 2017 11:41pm
Yes. Instead of 100 feet (sn 10001) is 'only' 65 feet (sn 7001).
Both are Raichel-Pugh designed built by McConaghy.

dreamliner
dreamliner
NSW
110 posts
NSW, 110 posts
7 May 2017 9:39am
sirgallivant said..
What you are touring on and looking at on the photo is Wild Oats X.

Not Wild Oats XI.



Yep as seen on the second pic of the bow an X
She must be getting on a bit with XI being built 2005
twodogs1969
twodogs1969
NSW
1000 posts
NSW, 1000 posts
7 May 2017 7:38pm
I am pretty sure I read somewhere that X was built as Bob Oatly's private boat but proved so quick it became a race boat.
sirgallivant
sirgallivant
NSW
1531 posts
NSW, 1531 posts
7 May 2017 11:17pm
A racing boat by mistake not by default?
I didn't hear of that, Ross, but it is an interesting thought.
I passed it every week for years as our boat is housed next to it.
Remember Bob Oatley in a wheelchair being lifted onto the boat few months before he died.

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