Team East (Engl-E, Great Britain) - 2010-09-15
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Ben Tilston
39.99 [PB](D)
38.21 [PB](D)
3.41(D)
0(D)
0(D)
16.89(D)
benno
37.9(D)
35.12(D)
3(D)
0(D)
0(D)
13.54(D)
Mike G
27.45(D)
25.38(D)
12.55(D)
19.37(D)
16.89(D)
44.21(D)
Peter Cutts
Lance Newbery
Stephen Squirrell
Hotdog
Jamie Bore
Tris Haskins
Rik Jones
Will Trossell
Steve Carter
Trollope
Whitey
plum
matty
Average38.9536.677.989.698.4530.55
Ben Tilston (3051km):
5212 days ago
3 categories

A day of firsts for me.  First day at a speed course, first time on a speed board and first time hiting 40kts.

Made the trip up to WK with a fair bit of apprehension but in the end had the best days sailing ever.

Arrived about 10ish and stood in awe as I watched all the big guns nuke it down the course.  Unfortunately my smallest sail is a 5.8 and after hearing most were on smaller I carried on watching from the comfort of my car building up courage and looking at how it should be done. 

At 12 I plucked up the courage, rigged up and got out there.  First couple of runs were bloody scary and out of control but with peaks of only 25 and 28kts :-(.  Decided to just go for it and sheet in - steadily I improved run by run 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (interspersed with a couple of wipeouts and a batten breakage) getting closer and closer to the wall.  It all paid off and eventually I saw the magic 40kts on the screen - AWESOME!! Bucket load of PB’s smashed too.

Definitely need to work on the technique and kit tuning but hopefully that will come with practice.  Top day, top company and looking forward to doing it all again soon...

West Kirby / W 30-45kts / Naish SP60 / NP RSR 5.8 / Techtonics Falcon 25

 



benno (257km):
5210 days ago
1 categories

bell end sat and waited for wind to chill.....it died!

top banana to ben!



Mike G (4335km):
5201 days ago

Not really a speed session but I put my GPS on anyway. Bump and jump in front of Club Mistral with a couple of forward loops off little waves. :)

Spot / Conditions: Le Morne (Mauritius), 15 knots gusting 20 knots
Kit: Fanatic FreeWave 95, North Ice 5.7, Fanatic FW G10 27
Tech Details: Navi GT-31 V1.3 (B1123t), GPSResults v6.90, Doppler, Cubic Spline. 



Comments
evets


WA
Australia
5210 days ago

Ah Ben, so close to 2 sec 40Surprised

lao shi


WA
Australia
5210 days ago

Well done Ben! Thats as good as 40 in my book. Round it up!Cool

Nice PBs benno.

benno


Engl-E
Great Britain
5209 days ago

cheers guys!

can i claim my 39.9 peak as a 40 then?Cool