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puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

18 Sep 2007 10:51pm

www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/09/when-you-absolu.html

Who needs wind to rip? This is just the thing for freestyle events. Not terribly "green" though.

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

Haircut

QLD, 6491 posts

19 Sep 2007 1:42am

thanks, it was good to watch

puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

19 Sep 2007 1:40am

I want to try this. Also, it seems like a good feature to add to instructional clinics don't you think? No wind? No problem. At least for the windsurfer with sufficient ability to be shoved onto a plane.

nebbian

6277 posts

nebbian

WA, 6277 posts

19 Sep 2007 8:46am

quote:
Originally posted by puffin
At least for the windsurfer with sufficient ability to be shoved onto a plane.

Here I was thinking it was some mad fusion of windsurfing and skydiving...

knot board

QLD

1241 posts

knot board

QLD, 1241 posts

19 Sep 2007 11:00am

crashpart

Leech

1933 posts

Leech

WA, 1933 posts

19 Sep 2007 11:06am

ha ha there's even spectators!

gazza

647 posts

gazza

WA, 647 posts

19 Sep 2007 6:57pm

that could go so very very wrong
funny video

Gestalt

QLD

14953 posts

Gestalt

QLD, 14953 posts

19 Sep 2007 10:52pm

that it could,

some teenagers on the goldy found that out. they all stood up in the tinnie and dropped pants at some people on the shore. (brown salute)

that unbalanced the boat, they fell in, and one got run over receiving cuts to his head.

i showed the vid to a mte today. he wondered why they bothered with the sail

i thought it was superb

puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

22 Sep 2007 10:43am

"The brown salute"? Lovely.

boardboy

QLD

554 posts

boardboy

QLD, 554 posts

24 Sep 2007 12:21am

I set the 'un-official' world speed sailing record using the same technique

puffin

235 posts

puffin

235 posts

24 Sep 2007 8:32pm

quote:
Originally posted by boardboy

I set the 'un-official' world speed sailing record using the same technique

How fast did you go? (and what kind of boat did you use?)

pierrec45

NSW

2005 posts

pierrec45

NSW, 2005 posts

26 Sep 2007 11:01pm

Hey Michael,

technically in that video, it's the board that planes and not the entire rig !

Fun video!

555

892 posts

555

892 posts

27 Sep 2007 5:29am

quote:
Originally posted by pierrec45

Hey Michael,

technically in that video, it's the board that planes and not the entire rig !

Fun video!

Umm.. so how would a sail "technically" plane exactly? Maybe if we tied the mastfoot to the back of the boat and towed it..?

If you wanted to get the 'entire rig' to plane, would you have to tow the board, sail, and sailor on ropes behind the boat or what?

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