Select to expand quoteWander66 said..
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Saw this, and thought a collection of videos showing a level of skill would be interesting.
Good idea Wander.
That's a nice boat too, I like the length in the cockpit.
Skipper Dee Caffari just oozing class.
She had a newish crew and a potentially dangerous situation forming ahead, with lots of variables all moving at once. So she simply;
Calls for the main ease and dumps speed, giving Scallywag who's ahead and to leeward some valued room to come up to avoid a spectator boat. Moves over to port still washing off speed, giving SW room, and line up a better angle through the rapidly narrowing gap,
The numpty in the next spectator boat then swings late and wide into them. Eek.
This is really good helm work, she purposely doesn't panic and jerk away, which would pivot too hard and impact the rear quarter. She sneaks through and then braking and shedding more speed with a sweet slalom to neatly avoid running up Scallywags backside
Love the little 'whew' at the end 
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www.facebook.com/EtchellsAustralia/videos/vb.337880942972912/2136751703208900/?type=2&theater
like the part at 1.42 sec
www.facebook.com/EtchellsAustralia/videos/vb.337880942972912/248168492499929/?type=2&theater
at 2.42
yeah I know, self indulgent!
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Select to expand quotelydia said..
Not the Southern Ocean but Sydney Southport off Yamba in 40 plus and 3 knots of set going the other way.
I believe I did the delivery on YENDYS back to Sydney after that race.
That is not a start line, this is a start line
9 minutes to sail along it.
www.bing.com/videos/search?q=etchell+worlds+brisbane&&view=detail&mid=A65602828E9D77047109A65602828E9D77047109&&FORM=VRDGAR
There is some gun sailing in this vid.
At 8.14 mins in no doubt lydia and boty will start drooling. 
Select to expand quotecisco said..
There is some gun sailing in this vid.
At 8.14 mins in no doubt lydia and boty will start drooling.
amazing story of Dorade and Stormy weather !!!
www.rorc.org/news/news-2019/royal-ocean-racing-club-to-finish-the-rolex-fastnet-race-in-cherbourg well timed Cisco starts this Saturday
Select to expand quotelydia said..
But I am not in that one cisco
No but how good would it have been to have been??
The vid click pic is an absolute classic of those two classics battling it out in a boistrous sea having just rounded Fastnet Light behind them.
Dorade beat Stormy Weather with only a mile or so between them and a better time for both of them than back in the 1930s.
The time should be better with modern weather forecasts,routing,dacron sails etc.
Read "You are first" or any of Olin's books.
This Fastnet could be epic. There are so many new foiling boats. They say if the weather is right the new big multi hulls could do it in 24hrs,less if the weather is perfect.
Select to expand quotetarquin1 said..
The time should be better with modern weather forecasts,routing,dacron sails etc.
Read "You are first" or any of Olin's books.
This Fastnet could be epic. There are so many new foiling boats. They say if the weather is right the new big multi hulls could do it in 24hrs,less if the weather is perfect.
Yep, agree. We just watched a Mod 70 do Brisbane to Hammo which is 600nm in 25 hours.
This Fastnet should be fascinating.
Select to expand quotetarquin1 said..
There seams to be some interest in Dorade and Stormy.
Dorade was on a mission to do every ocean race the boat had ever won,that's quite a few. They added a few more and even did the Sydney to Hobart.
Wow. Outstanding sail plan.
