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Double Gybe

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Created by sailquik > 9 months ago, 28 Dec 2008
sailquik
VIC, 6149 posts
28 Dec 2008 9:32PM
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Tom and I on the Starboard Gemini. 9m 08 Koncept on the back, 7.5m 09 Koncept on the front. 10-11 knots of wind max. Top speed 22.32 knots Doppler!

Photography by Spottycam.

mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
28 Dec 2008 7:43PM
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Ya clever pair of baskets, well done. Was that today?

slowboat
WA, 560 posts
28 Dec 2008 7:50PM
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wow thats awesome- especially considering how rough the water was...

nebbian
WA, 6277 posts
28 Dec 2008 7:50PM
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Very nice

Has the back person considered doing a duck? Done right the mast should lay down to the left of the front person... I'd still wear a helmet if I was in front though

sailquik
VIC, 6149 posts
28 Dec 2008 10:01PM
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Slowboat; Yeah. I know what those poor baskets in the Sydney Hobart feel like battling those huge seas.
It was Yesterday.
Today we had 20-25 SW forecast for late arvo but in the end we got barely 15 knots for about half and hour.
Ahhh... a duckky is out of the question on the back with big sails at least. They overlap too much. We have had duckkys on the front though, and a young bloke from SHQ did a spinny, flicky somthingorother tack on the front. I was standing right behind him and I still don't know what he did!

decrepit
WA, 12370 posts
28 Dec 2008 8:48PM
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Far out has that thing got a rudder????

evets
WA, 685 posts
28 Dec 2008 9:47PM
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Thanks for posting the video. What an amazing vessel and manouevre

Haircut
QLD, 6481 posts
29 Dec 2008 2:53PM
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that was well done

brave man who sails @ the front

Paul Kelf
WA, 678 posts
29 Dec 2008 4:23PM
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That's unreal, we were talking about you guys on the tandem yesterday as one of our crew were out teaching on the old F2 Tandem


sailquik
VIC, 6149 posts
29 Dec 2008 11:33PM
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Hey guys. It would be really great if you could bring that F2 tandem to Sandy with you on your next trip. I recon that thing has a heap more top speed potential than the Gemini!

mathew
QLD, 2054 posts
29 Dec 2008 10:47PM
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Maybe we should get the speed-tandem out...

sailquik
VIC, 6149 posts
30 Dec 2008 12:20AM
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mathew said...

Maybe we should get the speed-tandem out...


Ahhh.... I guess that will have to wait until a nice SW day. I think Tuesday we have another agenda................

New years day is looking good if you don't have a hangover!



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