Nice one Poods.

Poodles

Brilliant vid, thought you did a hell of a job putting that together, T W U's a screamer and is hard on the eyes, you have to be pleased with her, well done.

SandS said...

good one Poods . How many crew is required to race her , i lost count ?

bit of a close call on one of those kite runs about 3.17, that boat with the red kite looked close!!!

thanks for posting need more of it !

cheers

8 is full crew, and in fresh to heavy conditions, we need that weight on the rails, and everyone is busy when we round marks. Light air we might go with 7, even 6 for a drifter.

The big red kite going astern was our luffing buddy "The X Factor". I was steering that day, and did not even notice!! They are a Foundation 36 (BW36) - Very close in rating & performance to us. TXF has a great winning record & is very well sailed. They use to kick our arse, so we a very pleased to now being consistently in front of them.

There are plenty more vids, photos, etc on our website:

www.thiswayupracing.blogspot.com

Glad you all enjoy our bragging!!!

Poods

Nice job.
Us guys on Choir Practice now know what we have to do to get to the front of the fleet.

Poodle said...

NoDrama said...

Nice job.
Us guys on Choir Practice now know what we have to do to get to the front of the fleet.

You guys picked up a few flags towards the end..??

I still vividely recalled our first Fremantle winter series in 2007 on Olfrygt, our old UFO34. We learnt a lot very quickly, usually the hard way! But those lessons really stick, & we still enjoyed it.... and have just kept on improving over the years!! It would have been hilarious to have a GoPro cam to capture some of our more forgetable "learning experiences" from past seasons....

Poods

We picked up a third in the last race. Only three onboard & two of us will be sailing our own boats during the summer, unfortunately leaves Deiter needing some more crew.