Wipeout!

Jockey test

Just arrived back from a test sail with my chosen "Bloody Mary" handicap open meeting jockey. A very talented young sailor called Piers Hugh Smith (16yrs 68kg). Someone to watch I think. He handled the boat very well (no chickening out on the gybes (Mr Barton) ;-) ), especially well considering the strong and gusty conditions. Pretty similar conditions to the Y&Y test sail... with one particularly nasty gust which came from nowhere, (30knts) at just after 3pm (check the stats image below) which caused Piers a gigantic wipe out of epic proportions. The conditions varied wildly as they always do a B.S.C ranging from lulls down to 10knts. GoPro footage will be posted when available.

The Farr 3.7... it's the real article

Spaced?

I got an interesting couple of pics today from a fellow Farr 3.7 sailor who's based in South Australia. Showing an unusual bulk head design and material. I thought I'd share it with the world. As I've not seen this sort of construction done before.

This is what Matt has to say about the Farr 3.7:

"I purchased one in Australia from Ebay rather cheaply and I think you can't beat the " bang for my buck " that I got here with my Farr.... My sailing experience is crewing in a Mosquito cat and I'm learning to sail my Farr off the wire with some crashing and burning ! ( makes me realise how easy crewing of the trapeze is now )"

Good on ya Matt!