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Author:  Muddy Waters [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:25 am ]
Post subject:  Wave hull flying photos...
Here in the Great White North we are still a few months away until the Big Thaw. Googling the 'net for Wave photos helps ease the pain.

One website I found contained 9 pages (75 photos) of some impressive racing photos including some cool Wave hull flying shots. Some would make great desktop backgrounds.

Click here: Ross's MyPhotoAlbum
Author:  wannahobie [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:53 am ]
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Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Author:  Muddy Waters [ Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Power Steering?
Check out album page 3, top left photos (#19, #20)

Are these guys hamming it up for the camera? or is there something strategic about laying prone on the tramp downwind and steering with your feet?

Curious minds need to know.
Author:  xanderwess [ Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:09 am ]
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Who are those guys and where are they? Looks like fun, I haven't seen many pics of Wave action in heavier air
Author:  hobieokc [ Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:10 am ]
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Steering with your feet is the only way to get forward on a Wave which is fastest.
Author:  xanderwess [ Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:16 am ]
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You're a WAVE expert NOW??
Author:  Muddy Waters [ Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:39 am ]
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hobieokc wrote:
Steering with your feet is the only way to get forward on a Wave which is fastest.

Thanks, hobieokc. That would make complete sense, and would explain the comment at the bottom of photo #17:

"This sequence is a neck to neck dash for the finish line. You can tell these guys take their sailing very seriously."
Author:  xanderwess [ Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:46 pm ]
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I don't know, all the kids at the Youth Wave Regatta we have in Des Moines take the main sheet and tie it to the corner of the steering assembly and steer with the rope and get pretty much up in front of the mast. More than one way to skin a cat..
Author:  DHT [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:55 am ]
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Good pictures... although I am surprised at some of the pictures showing athletic guys with cigarettes hanging from their mouth. LOL.

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Author:  Stags209 [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:28 pm ]
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heres my pic...

Image
Author:  zzcoreyzz [ Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:38 am ]
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I sit facing aft and steer with my feet sometimes in lighter wind.

It gets my weight forward, evens out the draft and the boat will go significantly faster.

I mentioned it in an earlier post.
Author:  zzcoreyzz [ Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:40 am ]
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BTW...

These hull flying pictures have gotten to me. I gotta' go sailing right now.

See ya!
Author:  sgtpepperoni00 [ Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:34 am ]
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im so glad i have year round sailing... sorry
but dont be jealous. The wind averages under 10mph. we only get so many great wind days. And im usually WORKING or at SCHOOl when they happen! :evil: :evil: :evil:

....very disappointing
Author:  sgtpepperoni00 [ Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:39 am ]
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BTW...


About steering with your feet. If its really that big of a deal why dont you just install a small tiller to your tiller cross bar that you use when you need to get forward on the boat.

You could make it with the tiller in the middle of the tiller crossbar and have 2 clips on each side of the tiller crossbar. When your not using it just hook the tiller into one of the clips so its out of the way. When you need to use it unclip it and go forward.


Im sure using your feet works but you look like a goon doing it....
Author:  zzcoreyzz [ Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:48 pm ]
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Look like a goon? :mrgreen: I don't think so...why just the other day a young lady on the jetty wanted to swim out and join me.

HA! 8)

Anyway... I think about a tiller from time to time, but then the wind picks up and then...

forgetaboutit
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