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« on: June 17, 2019, 11:42:25 AM »
Here is a really interesting video of what happens when a squall hits you and how much time you get. Seen in real time. Hint: when you see that kind of sh!t unfurling in the sky ... batten the hatches. Like hardcore. This was this past Saturday, during a regatta on alpine Lake Leman, Geneva. The biggest, by participants, inland race in the world. Storm warnings were out 24h before. So everyone outthere knew. But still, when it hit... Kudos to the great seamanship out there. 212 yachts abandoned the race, 49 dis-masted, 3 sunk, gusts of 60 knots measured. No casualties among race participants. One woman died in the squall. Not part of the race but on a "pleasure craft", near Geneva. Vid is 8 mins. Watch 'til the end. It's kind of funny. The crew handles it very well... until... For the 4 min version watch the first few secs and then skip to about 03:45 when it really starts to honk. Sail world article for more info: www.sail-world.com/news/218697/Bol-dOr-Mirabaud-2019--An-epic-editionwww.facebook.com/skippers.ch/videos/2214719831947528/
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« on: March 12, 2019, 11:34:55 AM »
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« on: July 31, 2018, 03:56:40 AM »
"Stock" 14' boards still in the game.
Interesting that Josh Riccio got 5th in Molokai-2-Oahu on a 14' "stock" board. 8 stock 14's in the top 25.
As cool as it is that stock 14's are holding their own I'm not just a die-hard old-school guy. I'm totally jonesing for a foil. So small, so simple, so damn fast.
So cool Kai Lenny rides strapless for ocean cruising.
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« on: November 27, 2017, 04:18:40 AM »
OMG
Clog city!
"The doctor" race in oz
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« on: September 04, 2017, 05:17:42 AM »
the everpresent question...
Allwater type nose vs displacement nose: Which is faster for a flatwater distance race?
For anyone following the racing in Copenhagen (ISA worlds) I think we have our answer. It's all about the paddler.
Annabel Anderson won on a [borrowed] Allstar. A fleet of Sprints coming in behind her.
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« on: August 11, 2017, 06:20:50 AM »
OK, it's Friday and feeling provocative. I haven't griped about this as much as I've felt like. May I suggest we refer to windspeed in knots? Or Beaufort scale. Two things: Any seasoned waterman talking wind on water talks windspeed in knots (or Beaufort). It's the age-old standard thing to do before and even since the world went metric. It does have the advantage of having a common reference for wind between watermen living in imperial measured countries and those in metric countries. It just works. Sorry to say but anyone referring to windspeed on water im mph or kph does come across as kind of a landlubber. Some of the world has moved on to a metric system of measurement. I looked it up. This might be news to some: all but the nations in red on the below map have moved on. Yes Virginia, that's ~ 95% of the world population. Before watermen tended to use Beaufort scale as it is a great scale for eyeballing it, but now that we have accurate measured windspeeds so readily available the tendency is to talk in Knots.
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« on: July 25, 2017, 12:37:12 PM »
I get to choose a color for a new board. A light color is always good so it doesn’t heat much in the sun. I’m thinking of getting white.
Is white a lot easier to repair eventual dings?
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« on: July 09, 2017, 09:34:42 AM »
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« on: May 02, 2017, 01:53:24 PM »
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« on: March 21, 2017, 08:10:46 AM »
Several airlines get 4 days to implement a ban on laptops, cameras, and other electronic equipment on flight. UK quickly follows suite. Bet more will do so too, just to follow suite.
What a drag for travellers. If flights are down-time work-wise that’s a lot of time lost.
The classic “trick” for employees with company laptops to get an upgrade that the boss was refusing was always to simply check them in to as checked baggage. Ooops, broken, need a new one. Worked every time! This requirement to put them as check in baggage is going to create a lot of damage.
So here’s the question, IATA regulations prohibit passengers to put LiPo batteries as checked baggage in hold. So which devices have the new LiPo batteries and what is one supposed to do with them. (other than the logical “discharge” them thing).
Can someone sensible please take charge. [pun unintended]
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« on: January 25, 2017, 03:49:14 AM »
Looks like Trump and Ajit Pai will do away with Net Neutrality. Obviously there is big money to be made as sites will need to pay to have quality of service guaranteed. The corporations will take over. Also, I suspect, Trump will use this to shut down independent news and opinion outlets. He clearly has a deep need to control news about him. Scary stuff.
I presume this also affects internet users sitting outside the US but accessing a US based site. Like this site. Right? The bandwidth at the source will become less available [for those who didn’t pay].
What an easy way to control what information people can receive, while still pretending it is available. This can't be healthy.
If it happens, what's next? A massive move of site hosting to outside the US?
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« on: January 12, 2017, 01:40:48 PM »
What are the wind limits that a drone can be flown from a boat which travels downwind with SUPs?
If the waves get pretty crazy is it too hard to launch and land the drone?
Let's just say big bidget stuff. what are the limits possible this year?
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« on: December 25, 2016, 09:58:28 AM »
Mushpling
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« on: December 13, 2016, 05:32:26 AM »
That "itch" is growing. The fun doesn't really start until way later in the season when we can do the big lines.
Anyone who's a skier, here's a little something to get the butterflies going in your core. My back yard:
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