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Fusion Fantastic

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Created by SailMark > 9 months ago, 3 Nov 2018
SailMark
QLD, 87 posts
3 Nov 2018 7:34PM
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French Yacht Challenge today on Moreton Bay. 15-20knots most of the day.
Pogo12.5 Fusion, was 10 minutes faster than a First 50 and 18 Minutes faster than a First 45 over about 150 minutes of racing. Not bad for a 40 footer.
Congratulations are in order!

SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
3 Nov 2018 9:10PM
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I would have thought it would have to be faster !!! skiff V displacement

rumblefish
TAS, 824 posts
3 Nov 2018 9:26PM
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SandS said..
I would have thought it would have to be faster !!! skiff V displacement


Depends on the race track.
If newest Gen First's, they are pretty quick to windward and no slouch DDW.
In fact if it was a W/L track in anything under 15 I'd def back to F50, 20 knots might let the Pogo run deep enough to make ground downwind

Bananabender
QLD, 1604 posts
3 Nov 2018 8:51PM
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It's the nut behind the wheel. Good one Shaggy

shaggybaxter
QLD, 2587 posts
4 Nov 2018 5:28AM
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SailMark said..
French Yacht Challenge today on Moreton Bay. 15-20knots most of the day.
Pogo12.5 Fusion, was 10 minutes faster than a First 50 and 18 Minutes faster than a First 45 over about 150 minutes of racing. Not bad for a 40 footer.
Congratulations are in order!





Hi Sail,
Thanks very much, It was the 15 kn minimum that helped, as we start planing about then. It was good fun day, with having the powerboaters doing their Goodwill Cup Navigation challenge, and the multihullers kicking off their own race , it was a busy patch of water round Peel yesterday!

The Firsts are tough for the Pogo in the lighter races, and Rumblefish is pretty accurate with his wind range on a W/L.

On the first leg we had enough pressure with the gennaker to make the main almost invert, so we put the 1st reef in, put the bigger kites away, and just focused on maintaining the optimal heel angle. I think we saw a max speed of 14 knots which was enough, it's amazing what a difference the wind strength has on our performance.

We caught the fleet in front , but I couldn't pass Coopers who were leading that fleet before we ran out of runway, they sailed well.

It was a good fun race, thx to all the other boats for a great day!

shaggybaxter
QLD, 2587 posts
4 Nov 2018 6:08AM
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We had a couple of breakages, broke the port lower headsail winch ( lost the self tailor) and due to having crossheet to other winches the jib sheet got caught and snapped the casing. We should be able to fix the winch at least.







shaggybaxter
QLD, 2587 posts
4 Nov 2018 10:00AM
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SailMark said..
French Yacht Challenge today on Moreton Bay. 15-20knots most of the day.
Pogo12.5 Fusion, was 10 minutes faster than a First 50 and 18 Minutes faster than a First 45 over about 150 minutes of racing. Not bad for a 40 footer.
Congratulations are in order!


G'day Sailmark,
Was that you having a ding dong match race with Momentum?

SailMark
QLD, 87 posts
4 Nov 2018 1:35PM
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SailMark said..
French Yacht Challenge today on Moreton Bay. 15-20knots most of the day.
Pogo12.5 Fusion, was 10 minutes faster than a First 50 and 18 Minutes faster than a First 45 over about 150 minutes of racing. Not bad for a 40 footer.
Congratulations are in order!



G'day Sailmark,
Was that you having a ding dong match race with Momentum?


Yeah SB. That was us. Waterline length is my excuse. We go really well hard upwind but cracked off like that we had no answer.
Still a nice day on the water as was the blast back home today.

shaggybaxter
QLD, 2587 posts
5 Nov 2018 9:45AM
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Hi Sailmark,
Just so you know, VidPicPro got a couple of excellent shots of you, there's a great one where you're leading a whole bunch, a great crew shot on the rail, and another of a starboard tacker going between you and Momentum.
That's a photogenic boat you have there sir.
So, how did you go yesterday to Hope Banks? It looked like pretty much the same conditions?
Cheers,
SB

SailMark
QLD, 87 posts
5 Nov 2018 3:50PM
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Hey SB. thanks for the tip about the photos. Thank heaven no action shot of us shredding the kite.
Regarding the Sunday race, we are ineligible as we are not a Beneteau, although I think somehow we scored as DNS
Go figure.



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