We reefed it while in the Slot where it was about 25 kts. Quite naturally wind dropped once we entered the Racoon straight, but we left it on. Indeed we see that this boat likes her sails be reefed quite early.

Oh we wish 🙂 The life would be so much easier (and boring of course). But what made you think so?

Actually it's not gimballed camera. The stabilization done in post processing. We had gimballed GoPro on starboard side, but Poseidon took as a gift somewhere at Point Conception.

You have to use insulation tape on those cheaper shackles! learnt that lesson the hard way, the boat owner didn't want to splurge on buying Tylaska's either.

Second Sun Dragon video I've watched. Shackle issues in both. Mentioned it was Tylaskas in the other video. I wouldn't call'm cheap kit @ $180 per.

Unfortunately the only Aussie we have is AI Paul from elevenlabs.io/app/voice-lab who does voiceovers for us 🙂

All gybes on this video are the outside ones. We do inside ones as well in light air.

@@SunFastCam ha ha that’s very funny … I thought it could be AI but then I thought “No it couldn’t be that an AI system would use an Aussie accent” …. thanks for getting back to me on the accent and outside gybing. 👍 😃

Excellent question. Just regular snap shackles like this one www.westmarine.com/tylaska-marine-hardware-snap-shackles-P002_060_001_508.html not sure what particular brand. In other time couldn’t open it. I guess they got some beating in their prior life and need to be replaced.

I got fed up with opening shackes (not every shackle is a tylaska) and we always secure the halyard shackles of the kite with electrician's tape. Not a problem after that.

@@sailawayteam For the new sheets and halyards we are planning to use the soft shackles.

@SunFastCam for sheets, great. For halyards, i'd be suspicious. They hold, but as a bowman I know that halyards (and kite sheets for that matter) need to be frequently attached and detached somewhere in a hurry for a moment, often with just one hand. Soft shackle will make that a pita.

github.com/sergei/sailvue

We are in the double handed division where it is allowed. "6.9.8. RRS 52 is changed for the Short-handed Sailing (SHS) class only, to allow the use of autopilots during the Series" offshoreraceweek.com/docs/2024-CORW-NOR.pdf

It's just a standard-issue west marine sponge. The anti-fouling is < 1 year old, and the green stuff wipes off really easily.

Thanks! 😃

Keeping our fingers crossed so far :-)

Glenn is a relentless salesman 🤣. If scroll down our feed, you see us sailing this boat on the East Coast last year in NE Solo/Twin.

Here is my reasoning: The diagram is oriented so the wind is coming from the top. Let's consider the tack at 3:42. The dot and arm is the boat speed and direction. Before the tack the wind is coming from the ports side, so the dot and arm pointing right as you would draw the boat going upwind on a port tack. At 4:00 the boat is head to wind, so the dot is in the center. Once the tack is complete the wind is coming from starboard so the dot is on the left. The downwind is more confusing, it's just made as continuation of upwind, imagine the boat bearing off, beam reach and going deep. The dot just continues to move.

@@SunFastCam When you put it that way, it kind of makes sense. :) I saw you goin thru the Slot a few months back. You have a very slick-looking boat!

because of the wind

Actually autopilot is on. On some of our other videos with instruments overlay you can see when autopilot is on and when it is off, also it shows the rudder angle. For example here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKTfWl4Z9eBo8Ufeature=shared

@@SunFastCam The autopilot mechanics are mostly below the deck, controlling the same ram on the rudders that the tiller controls.

Oh, these runners (and lack of thereof) give us such heebie-jeebies... Still learning our way to deal with them.

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Thanks, we are gradually learning to trust our third crew member Otto more and more 😂

It also explains why we couldn't find the mark 😂

I wish we had some good reason. We just mistook green buoy G"1" with Blossom rock and started to get ready to round it. You might imagine how stupid we felt when realized this mistake 🙂

@@SunFastCam ahhhh, yep, I can relate. If you haven’t seen our recap of that race, check it out. We have some awesome footage of you guys surfing our stern wake.

It's the standard production one. We found that in the light air (typical SF winter) the inside gybes are easier than the outside ones. But we are just learning this boat, so might change our mind later on.

@@SunFastCam similar on mine. This is Phil from Fearless. Would love to chat about the boats. I have had her for one year and learning. I will be periodically in the Bay Area due to good family event….

@@Fearless-sailingThat would be nice! Let us know when you are in the Bay Area

@@SunFastCam am back till April 1. Let me know if you have time to connect and how to reach out

@@Fearless-sailing my email is [email protected]

The GoPro Hero 11 camera, YDVR N2K recorder and sailvue software from here: github.com/sergei/sailvue

You can find it here: github.com/sergei/sailvue

Yes, the software picks the polar curve for the average wind around given time.