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Photos taken at the World Viper Championships held in Perth this Week. Mondays race was a real ripper with a blowy South Westerly wind. Today is a lay day - but there is racing on Thursday and Friday this week in Melville Waters on the Swan River....
More photos of the Viper World Championships on my Facebook Group - Ironbark Photos - www.facebook.com/groups/1957909027766518/
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Ironbark
honking sailing pics ! you win ......... the fastest ive been is 10 knots surfing down a wave with a flood tide in a 4 ton 30 footer . no pics because to busy holding tiller for dear life !!!
Flashback to a heat of the 1978 Hobie 16 Worlds, South Padre Island, Texas. We managed to save this nosedive and continue on to win the heat leading three other Australian crews also placing in the top 5.
The background in the photo looks pretty tame but it was blowing well over 25 knots.
Putting the crew back together 30 years later for the 2009 World Masters Games, my forward hand, who looks singularly unimpressed here, advised me that it was his turn to steer.
Gravy7 - love the background story to the shot...................
Forward hands think they can do better than the skipper - pass over the tiller to see what happens!!
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Ironbark
Nowhere near as cool as the above, no outside view in this one, but it felt like a wild ride to me!
You can see the boat speed as the top number under the " % Polar Speed "
Lydia was helming at the time, made it look easy.
Not in the same league, but my own Formula 15 skiff turning in to set up for a gybe at the recent Nationals
I have a Sanyo waterproof video mounted on the stern time synced with a Garmin GPS in the boat. Used a product called Dashware to put the telemetry onto the video.
Appears it is now free to download. www.dashware.net/
The 16 foot skiffs look very different to when I was sailing on Botany Bay/Georges River in the 1970's - nice shot Ando16...
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Ironbark
This was the last day of Geographe Bay Race Week. On Stand Aside a Thompson 870. We got bored with the fractional kite, so put up the masthead, the wind promptly rose to over 30 knts and we had a wild ride until it ended predictably. If I can post the gopro footage I will!
