Back To Andalusia – Cádiz
Foiling Gybes Race 3
- bringing enough speed, but entering with a bit high angle
- Rate of turn on the faster side at the beginning, maybe slows down a bit at exit
- Wing invert a bit earlier, higher clew catch. Twist mid fleet
- Entering with cant 7.5 Some teams are at 5, some even more under than us
- Cant stow on the inside. Cant drop target inside, but similar to most teams
- Rudder avg on the lower side, RH going up with pitch up. Also looks like boats add rudders once bearing away, probably to keep the bow down.
- Some don’t even bother to have max diff on (gbr). With max diff you get up to 0.4 deg of it for a short period and it goes back to zero as soon as accelerating.
Downwind Straight Lines
- mid fleet SOG, but highest angle
- Heel on WW side (0.9LW). Fleet between 1LW and 2.5LW mostly
- Most bow up (2.0 compared to 2.2 to 2.5)
- Low rudder avg and low rake (matches bow up pitch)
- canted on the inside (7.3). Probably can aim for a degree more outside on average
- Quite low jib cunningham
- Clew the lowest (just under mid line). mostly about half way up the pod
More detailed DB cant. NZL and GBR pushing it to around 2-3. We are more shy with pushing out than the rest of the fleet.
Upwind Foiling straight lines
- most bow down boat
- on the ww heel side of the fleet (0.08L). NZL and DEN around 2WW.
- Cant mid fleet
- High rudder average
- Lowest jib cunno, high jib sheet load
- Clew to LW of the fleet (mid boat). Fleet mostly up half the pod.
- Twist on lower side
Race 3 gybe with GBR
- USA entered with more speed
- USA turned slower at first, faster later
- USA heeled to new LW right afer crossing dead downwind, GBR a few seconds later
- USA inverts later, twists sail more after dead downwind. GBR keeps the twist more in
- GBR adds LW rake pre gybe. Could be just because flying lower at entry
- GBR drops at cant 3. USA at 7
- GBR starts canting in only after 7 seconds after dead downwind, lifts old board quickly
- Similar rudder average during gybe, GBR no diff
- GBR burps jib lead, USA sheet
Post Gybe (10 s after) where we started losing
- GBR added rudders
- GBR Ca1 26, USA at 22
- GBR both foils higher AOA, WW more than LW
- GBR canting from out all the way in. USA fixed at 7
- GBR still not moving the jib, USA pulls it in. USA low jib cunno
After the gybe
