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ironbark > 9 months ago, 21 Feb 2018

ironbark

433 posts

21 Feb 2018 12:26pm

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

slammin

QLD

998 posts

21 Feb 2018 6:33pm

Wow awesome shots. Um nothing I've got comes close! You win

SandS

VIC

5904 posts

21 Feb 2018 9:13pm

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 !!!

ironbark

433 posts

21 Feb 2018 6:49pm

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slammin said..
Wow awesome shots. Um nothing I've got comes close! You win

Thanks slammin and sands - was a terrific day - set the sails and hang on!!!

cheers

ironbark

cisco

QLD

12364 posts

21 Feb 2018 9:38pm

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

dave202

19 posts

22 Feb 2018 2:02pm

Beating into some Moreton Bay chop on a Hobie 16. Yeeeehaaaa

Gravy7

NSW

242 posts

22 Feb 2018 6:08pm

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.

ironbark

433 posts

22 Feb 2018 6:34pm

Awesome shots dave202.............

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ironbark

ironbark

433 posts

22 Feb 2018 6:37pm

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

shaggybaxter

QLD

2661 posts

22 Feb 2018 10:31pm

Nowhere near as cool as the above, no outside view in this one, but it felt like a wild ride to me!
You can see the boat speed as the top number under the " % Polar Speed "
Lydia was helming at the time, made it look easy.

ironbark

433 posts

23 Feb 2018 9:51am

Wow that was moving shaggybaxter.....

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Ironbark

Tamble

194 posts

24 Feb 2018 4:53am

Of course if its not an 18ft skiff it barely counts as a wild ride

Tamble

194 posts

24 Feb 2018 4:56am

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

ironbark

433 posts

24 Feb 2018 5:10pm

That's not sailing Tamble - its more like flying!!!!!

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Ironbark

EC31

NSW

490 posts

26 Feb 2018 8:47pm

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

shaggybaxter

QLD

2661 posts

26 Feb 2018 8:14pm

Love the data overlay EC! What is it?

EC31

NSW

490 posts

26 Feb 2018 9:49pm

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/

ironbark

433 posts

26 Feb 2018 11:52pm

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EC31 said..
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/

Nice work EC31

cheers

Ironbark

Ando16

9 posts

27 Feb 2018 5:07am

ironbark

433 posts

27 Feb 2018 10:06pm

Submarine sailing Ando16?

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Ironbark

Ando16

9 posts

28 Feb 2018 5:09am

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

Ando16

9 posts

28 Feb 2018 5:17am

ironbark

433 posts

28 Feb 2018 6:17pm

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

blackswan

45 posts

8 Mar 2018 4:12pm

This was the last day of Geographe Bay Race Week. On Stand Aside a Thompson 870. We got bored with the fractional kite, so put up the masthead, the wind promptly rose to over 30 knts and we had a wild ride until it ended predictably. If I can post the gopro footage I will!

ironbark

433 posts

8 Mar 2018 5:37pm

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

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Ironbark

boty

QLD

685 posts

9 Mar 2018 7:38am

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blackswan said..
This was the last day of Geographe Bay Race Week. On Stand Aside a Thompson 870. We got bored with the fractional kite, so put up the masthead, the wind promptly rose to over 30 knts and we had a wild ride until it ended predictably. If I can post the gopro footage I w

will all patrons please move to the back of the bus GREAT SHOT

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