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5 x 10 = 48.03
Spotty Luderitz next yr for you!!!!!!!!
. Cheers for Chris Lockwood as well with the 2012 proto board he designed.
stoked for Anders, and glad he posted. The board he's using is identical to the plug that I sent to the factory for production.
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Nice article,great to see Chris and Spotty get some press too. Just throw Tony and Mal into the mix as well and let the cream rise to the top 
Great Article ...
Well done Chris on the board design! Good to see the Aussies getting a good mention. Go Spotty!!
Can you sail Luderitz canal any time of the year or is it restricted to the competition window?
Is anyone else suspicious of the claim that in Luderitz Anders became "the fastest windsurfer in the world...ever"?
This is dubious at best. Anders' best 500m was 47.43 knots which is considerably slower than Antoine's world record of 49.09 knots, and also Finian's previous record of 48.7.
We'll never know what Antoine's and Finian's peaks or 5 x 10s were, but it takes a great leap of faith to suggest Anders went faster.
Sure Anders has the highest peak and 5 x 10 "ever recorded" but to claim that he is "the fastest windsurfer in the world..ever" is BS.
I read that Anders had a peak speed of 50.7knots. I haven't heard or read of anyone having a faster peak speed. ergo, he is the fastest windsurfer.
Fastest over 10s, 500m or NM etc are just averages.
pretty sure AA or FM haven't seen a 50 on the dial yet- even on the days they broke the official 500m record. The canal is pretty special like that- the peaks are similar to the 500m.
I think the difference is to do with the start gate position. Its much shorter in Luderitz- maybe half the distance. Only 5 seconds from the corner to the gate. IMHO thats not long enough to accelerate to full speed at the start of the run. I havent seen Anders' tracks but I bet this is the reason for the difference in peak/average. From my experience, above 40kts even on a ball tearing run the acceleration is limited on average to just over one kt/sec, sure the peaks are a bit higher but over say 5 seconds the average is back around the 1kt/sec mark. So it would seem logical that even if Anders was doing 40kts around the corner (it doesnt look like it from the vid), he would only be doing 45kts by the start gate. His track log would show it pretty clearly.
Hi guys!
Sorry for being a bit slow....
Attached you´ll find 2 of Anders runs. The fastest 10 sec run, and the one that should have been the fastest if not the wind would have decreased with 15 knots
halfway down the canal...
Chris, could you please mail me(Mistral 2012) and some other stuff....thx!
Thanks for posting Mattias.
From the videos it looked like the wind was extremely gusty, and the track logs prove it. The canal banks are quite high, and steep, so its not surprising that the wind would be highly turbulent at windsurfing sail heights. The hills just upwind certainly don't help either. I sailed there before the canals were built and found the wind to be very gusty, despite the land immediately upwind of the water edge being very flat.
So Anders' speeds are really outstanding considering the wind conditions.
The canal in France is a different beast, with the land upwind being flat for a long way when its coming off the mountains, and dead flat for the few hundred metres to the ocean. There is very little to disturb the wind. Added to that the canal surface is raised by a few metres and it is pumped full of water, so the combined wind and water state is significantly better than anywhere else I've sailed.
