Photos taken at the World Viper Championships held in Perth this Week. Mondays race was a real ripper with a blowy South Westerly wind. Today is a lay day - but there is racing on Thursday and Friday this week in Melville Waters on the Swan River....

More photos of the Viper World Championships on my Facebook Group - Ironbark Photos - www.facebook.com/groups/1957909027766518/

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Ironbark

honking sailing pics ! you win ......... the fastest ive been is 10 knots surfing down a wave with a flood tide in a 4 ton 30 footer . no pics because to busy holding tiller for dear life !!!

Shoot!! Another 5 knots of breeze and those things will be airbourne!!

Flashback to a heat of the 1978 Hobie 16 Worlds, South Padre Island, Texas. We managed to save this nosedive and continue on to win the heat leading three other Australian crews also placing in the top 5.

The background in the photo looks pretty tame but it was blowing well over 25 knots.

Putting the crew back together 30 years later for the 2009 World Masters Games, my forward hand, who looks singularly unimpressed here, advised me that it was his turn to steer.

Gravy7 - love the background story to the shot...................

Forward hands think they can do better than the skipper - pass over the tiller to see what happens!!

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Ironbark

Wow that was moving shaggybaxter.....

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Ironbark

Not in the same league, but my own Formula 15 skiff turning in to set up for a gybe at the recent Nationals

Not in the same league either, but no spinnaker or trapeze.....

I have a Sanyo waterproof video mounted on the stern time synced with a Garmin GPS in the boat. Used a product called Dashware to put the telemetry onto the video.
Appears it is now free to download. www.dashware.net/

Just a little nosedive!
Big Rig in way too much wind that day.

The 16 foot skiffs look very different to when I was sailing on Botany Bay/Georges River in the 1970's - nice shot Ando16...

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Ironbark

Looks like a very wet ride blackswan.....

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Ironbark