Great looking sails .👍love to get a 6.3 .

they look awesome Dave, thanks for the pics

Just realised no window could make a faster sail and who needs it on a speed setup anyway you are literally never looking laterally
Perhaps overlooked for so long

Mark _australia said..
Just realised no window could make a faster sail and who needs it on a speed setup anyway you are literally never looking laterally
Perhaps overlooked for so long

Not having a window is potentially a problem. On a speed sailing location like Lake George, sailors are often crossing paths on the same and different tacks. The most dangerous situation is interaction between a sailor bearing away and one pointing high on the same tack. Hence, we need to look laterally especially when the lake gets busy.

How good is vision through the red tinted monofilm?

That Red Barron will once again be diving deep off the wind.

Sails look very nice Dave

What a place to sail!

Great run, could be an awesome NM on the right day. I had a look on Google Earth, but I assume it now runs a lot further south before heading out to sea

Yes, the river changes quite a bit. It seems to close up at the end of the 3km run when there hasn't been much rain and then the beach just becomes normal beach, then, with any further rain, it will rise in level, and then with a heavier rain it will break out closer to where it first reaches Ocean beach. Then the old river slowly drains away and fills with sand and the new river slowly goes from being straight out to sea and unsailable, to working it's way south again, with sand blowing in from the NW filling the windward side and the bank to leeward getting eaten away. There are periods duirng that transition where there could be some good short runs, but we haven't sailed it. I think it only really starts to get good when it does reach the sand dunes and then has no where to go so it starts getting a bit deeper, especially after a good rain (ie straightens the windward bank). I've sailed there 15 times previously, last time in 2017, and have had 40+ knot runs on 10 of those sessions, with a 37.4 knot Nautical Mile back in 2011. So it has been similarly good before, but it can also change quickly.

Here's a good shot of what happens when it does change:

John340 said..

Mark _australia said..
Just realised no window could make a faster sail and who needs it on a speed setup anyway you are literally never looking laterally
Perhaps overlooked for so long

Not having a window is potentially a problem. On a speed sailing location like Lake George, sailors are often crossing paths on the same and different tacks. The most dangerous situation is interaction between a sailor bearing away and one pointing high on the same tack. Hence, we need to look laterally especially when the lake gets busy.

How good is vision through the red tinted monofilm?

I had a luderitz 5.2 speed sail which had the soild colour luff panel. I did notice that issue (blind spot). Seems more of an issue with the luff than the window because your looking forward and up and down wind, where if someone pointing hard up wind and your bearing away you can missing them.

However looking at daves awesome Henty River clip, I think it solves this problem. I'd rather have a clear luff by the looks. I'll find out once I use my monsters

I fixed the visibility on the luderitz sail by putting some mouse holes through the luff panel