2 runs this Thursday evening 26-03-09 . First run peaked at over 51. Second peaked at just over 54 knots and looked good to me!!

Now the waiting to see if they got the 50 x 500m average......

Thanks for the hot news Andrew!
If any 'non sailboard' get it I would feel most at ease with MI.

Any video

The million dollar nassa class,a very scary contraption and sailed by girls with fannies of steel

The email from Tim Daddo this morning... he gave us permission to pass along to seabreeze.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: speedsail
Date: 2009/3/27
Subject: Macquarie Innovation makes history

Hi All,

This is just a very brief note with more details to come - but essentially, we did it !

Macquarie Innovation powered down the Sandy Point speed course last night at an average speed of 50.43 knots. During that run, we hit a peak speed of over 100 km/hr and while the claimed average speed, which is about to be sent for ratification, will be reduced to 50.08 kts due to the tidal allowance, we have sailed our craft in excess of 50 knots.

It is the culmination of over 15 years of work by the team and their loyal group of supporters and once again, we wanted to pass on both our sincere thanks and congratulations to you for helping us to create a little piece of yachting history last night. As a result, we will be making a claim for a new class C record which will be just shy of the current outright world record (50.57 kts) held by a kite, but most importantly sets us apart as the only sailing boat in the world to complete a 50 knot run !

Once again, congratulations and many thanks for your help in getting us to our goal of 50 knots !

Regards,

Tim

That is amazing, incredible, and stunning!

Big congratulations to the team, this is the culmination of lots of hard work. Well done MI!

After seeing the boat in the flesh at the pit that is unreal news!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to Tim and all the others involved, makes it all worthwhile.

Awesome

Brilliant news!

Great to hear that all of their hard work has paid off.

Will they try again for the outright?

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Haggar said...

Any video

Unfortunately I had left my camera at the house. Didn't have time to duck back and get it.

The official photographer had some absolutely stunning still shots. (Steb Fisher) Usually, someone from the MI crew had a video camera trained on the action. I didn't notice it this time but I am sure we will see something soon if it exists.

The interesting comment from Simon McKeon was that 'it felt like the boat was just cruising'.
He praised the development work that Tim Daddo and Lindsay Cunningham had done over the last couple of years to tame the beast so it felt well under control. I got the feeling he was confident it could go even faster......

I think they have only a few weeks left of this campaign. Then it is over for at least a year, and probably for good. I really hope they get another really good day before the end.

Congratulations MI Team!!
Such a long and dedicated campaign is getting the results you all deserve. Your patience and dedication make us all proud

Will be great to see the speed relative to wind speed data when available for the run.

Best of luck for future attempts.

Gday Spotty

Here are some pics of Tom, Daffy and some other nice bloke (sorry didn't get your name) from the bottom of #6 waiting to catch MI.

the sand was lifting and we had to yell at each other to communicate - around 18-25+, maybe a few gusts to 30. (You'd be running a 6.6 or bigger??)

You couldn't see the prom which was another good omen!

So stoked for Tim and the other guys, they put so much work into getting MI happening - I just go down there on the record days, help out then try to crack a few gybes later.

Bad luck to Allison's attempt, it must of been pretty brutal out there.

Well done to Tim and the crew,about time we got "our" water back Now just knock those pesky kites off the top. The other guy ,Eric was Peter I think.

Great pics L.D.Eddy! It is very rare to get pics at this, the fastest part of the course. Normally no-one ever walks that far down to take pics or video. First pic is me. Third is Peter Johnson.

It is interesting to see a photo that actually shows the chop that builds up in the lower part of the speed course. This was 18-25 knots max. In 30-40 knots it is triple the size and starts to become a mind concentrating issue!

My peaks speeds were just over 40 knots this day. Only beaten by 14 knots!!!

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Haggar said...

Any video

Sorry fellas, but you will have to go over to the dark side for 30sec to see it

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49359

Hi Guys,

Well done MI it is great to see the hard work has paid off. Looking at those photo's reminds me of how good sandy point is and how much i want to come back for another sail. May have to do another short road trip soon..

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Great pics L.D.Eddy! It is very rare to get pics at this, the fastest part of the course. Normally no-one ever walks that far down to take pics or video. First pic is me. Third is Peter Johnson.

It is interesting to see a photo that actually shows the chop that builds up in the lower part of the speed course. This was 18-25 knots max. In 30-40 knots it is triple the size and starts to become a mind concentrating issue!

My peaks speeds were just over 40 knots this day. Only beaten by 14 knots!!!

Not posting your sesh on GTC Andrew? Surely anything with a 4 in front of it has to be worth it?!

Ahh yeah but no hurry. Wasn't much good by our standards and I don't think it will make any difference to the team score............

Well done Tim and MI Team! Only a few clicks short of the outright too! Great work. I'll have a beer for you all.

well done to MI this is a fantastice result for yrs of effort!! hopefully they can nail the dreaded teabags soon.
have we got any info on how much wind they had? was it the 25ish mentioned above?

From my observations I think 18-25 was about right. I very much doubt any more than 25 and only then in brief puffs.

Dont know about the windspeed, but Tim says...
"...for nearly half the run we were averaging over 52 knots and it was only a massive hole in the wind at the end of the course where we dropped down to 45 knots that cost us the title."

good job

out of interest how do they get back to the start of the course? its an asymmetric design, so can it still sail the other tack but slower?

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swoosh said...

out of interest how do they get back to the start of the course? its an asymmetric design, so can it still sail the other tack but slower?

they tow it back up the course with the quad bikes

And just because it is also speed generated by the wind.
Here is the Land based record that was on the box tonight
200kph in 50k wind
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49455