Sailrocket 2 - Waiting for the wind + short video

2:35 AM Mon 24 Oct 2011 GMT

'Vestas Sailrocket 2' Vestas Sailrocket - copyright

The team behind the Vestas Sailrocket 2 program have returned to Walvis Bay in Namibia to continue their quest to set the outright world speed sailing record.

Paul Larsen:

Well no joy sailing wise over the past few days I'm afraid. Yesterday it blew when it wasn't supposed to and today it didn't when it was. Other than that we have had some pretty light conditions.

We took the opportunity to re-skin the wing where it needed it. We are also putting on a superior heat shrink film from HIFI films. It's both thinner (therefore lighter) and stronger than the previous stuff. We did a couple of small repairs inside the wing and also worked on making all the seals between the section much more efficient. I think this should give us a nice kick along.

Nick touched up the tip of the foil after the damage we did when we used it as a plough at the end of the last run. Helena has been working hard on editing up all the videos. She came across this piece on the camera we use to look at the Tacktick wind instruments on the shore. We thought it was pretty funny so made a short video out of it...