Go for it! 570mk2 looks fun with the kite. As long as you have a plan for when it goes upside down ;-)

@@PTXclusive it's early days for us on this boat. On the upwind, we had better VMG skimming.

The boat has 3 configurations. "One" configuration is designed for one sailor, but you can definitely sail it with 2. In this video the boat is set up for 2, but I'm sailing it solo.

Alfred! you were looking fast in that shot!

Thanks, Martin. We performed really well on that first leg. First H-20 to that mark. It certainly feels like we are getting faster each time👍 Can't wait to get back out there.

@@sith294 you guys are getting really fast!

Thanks! Hard to tell who was ahead. Probably Randy, but we took different strategies - he tacked East early, we stayed on. Our hope was to hold or not lose to much ground to him upwind, then get ahead downwind, where we have speed and angle on a stock f18. But. To finish first, first you have to finish! Lol

it looks like at ~6:15 you heeled to windward but then managed to catch it. I'm wonder if the windward capsize is sometimes unavoidable in a lull? Great sailing by the way thanks for uploading!

So you are heeling too much to windward. Typically there are 3 reasons - you've pinched too much! bear off, _ease a bit to ensure flow on the LW side of the sail_, crunch abs to reduce leverage - you've overtrimmed and stalled flow on the LW side of the sail - _ease a bit_ to try to re-establish flow, trim to lift butt out of water, crunch abs to reduce leverage - you're in a lull, ease to re-establish flow on the LW side of the sail, trim to lift your butt out of the water 🙂 , crunch abs to reduce leverage So what you do depends a bit on a theory you have in your mind of why it's happening. Lull and overtrimmed are in a way the same. And you can see that I sometimes ease and trim again. Sometimes it works. The best way to do the 'ease for flow, trim for lift out of water' is to ease fast, and trim slow. I am rusty and not necessarily a good example of doing that here -- instead of learning bad habits from me, there are some old videos of Nathan Outteridge teaching maneuvers on a moth, and if you look at how he does the ease followed by a trim, it's art.

@@louisclark9685 6.15 to 6.30 shows a moment with good breeze, I could feel the breeze so I knew I could trim for power to lift me up. But I was also worried about stalling the sail so you can see I trim and follow it by an ease...

Absolutely. TBH I did my share of it as a kid - "free range sailing" on the club Optis, packed 3 teenagers on a beat up Laser, borrowed Sunfish in resorts here and there... wasn't as fast, but it sure was fun.

Great question! I've evolved my setup a bit. The answer is elaborate so I posted it here forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/action-camera-gopro-virb-setup-for-video-recording-of-races-and-training.244506/post-8713824

Nope! Video is in HD alright. Tweak your KZbin settings...

Well actually I see now YT has at in low res. I am pretty sure I've uploaded it in high res, not sure why it's only 360. Super odd!

i sometimes have that problem too - upload it in 2160p and then 1080p is the max 😞@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats

Hi @matthewsailing - here's an outline of the kit we use for the camera... forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/action-camera-gopro-virb-setup-for-video-recording-of-races-and-training.244506/

Thank you! Yes, he's been at this for a while :-) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGXZoaOBbauhbdE - we welcome visiting sailors, get in touch if you come over to the warm waters of Miami...

On the tiller arm - see my gear explanation here: forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/action-camera-gopro-virb-setup-for-video-recording-of-races-and-training.244506/

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats I read it, thank you! Do you use an extension? It looks so far back over the rudder blade and also so high above the water.

@@joy2sail_de Yes - if you look in the Sailing Anarchy post, we have a "bicycle handlebar clamp" + a long arm (that's the extension - about 1 meter long) + the external battery pack.

This was some time ago! Looking at it, I think the rudder angle was ok for me sitting on the middle pad when foiling. I then reduced the rudder angle so I'd be slightly bow up. You can see that after that, once foiling I scoot forward to the front pad. My theory is that having weight forward once you are foiling is more prone to crashing... but faster!

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats I've seen the same thing about more speed when I move forward, but don't feel it's made me more prone to crashing. (Or maybe the crash and resultant waterboarding has just made me forget!? LOL) Last week we had great winds, but they were blustery and not steady. Made it hard to 'fine tune' the boat for that.

Standard aluminium. Does anyone offer a carbon mast for this boat? I don't love the aluminium mast, to be honest, but it's well matched to the sail. And the fleet has developed a good understanding of it. Diamond tension is king. A tapered carbon mast would be more automatic, forgiving, and probably require less fiddling with diamonds.

Congrats on the new boat! I much prefer to sail it with a jib, even solo. When sailing with the jib, the jib provides stable forward pull, and the main can be used for stability control.

Atlas showa "gardening" gloves. i like both the regular ones and the kevlar ones.

Fantastic. On this video we were a bit shy - I didn't look at the gauges but by feel I'd say 2.5 to 3. Should have gone to max.

Thanks for the encouraging words! Yes we agree with your comment - that was our exact top debrief note: More rake, crew more forward if needed, fly higher - but we need our foils mended/refinished; they have some dings and flaking off at the trailing edge that are well past "it'll buff out". Our alibi (!) is that this was a quick outing on the Z foils set after 2+ months of not foiling - we had a pause in our sailing followed by couple weeks training on C foils. As crew, I set the rake a tad timidly. Helm didn't have his trapeze harness, was wearing a way oversize adult (he's 12 and skinny). Long story short - not our top form, but a good fun run.

Not sure I understand the comment. I am on the UFO, good friend Javier is sailing the Weta.

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats I read the title as: Javier's last name was Weta. IE: Boat = UFO, Pilot = Javier Weta, Action = Practice, Date = 2019.

That spin pole we're snapping in the vid is from Jared's joint. I've already built the replacement (because I bought 2 when I was there). And we -were- going to be racing MKL this weekend with the 2nd one, and in similar conditions. We were soooo excited! A big wild downwind rip, blowing 20+kt, broad reach, 40nm long! And then my captain ate bad food the evening before and spent all night talking on the big white telephone. Spent the weekend on Pedialyte and editing this video...

BBtalkin' Bluetooth headsets...

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats how well does it work? Range? clear no static? normal talking ? I got board on the foiling A-cat because I was alone, all other boats I had crew. It really gets boring when not able to talk and share the experience.

Yay! Go for it! As for advise, there's a very active online forum discussing UFOs on Sailing Anarchy.

We're right at the top of the ideal weight range. The boat is a ton of fun for two full size adults but it just requires a bit more wind. Some of my videos are two adults.

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats Martin, thanks for answering. I am considering switching from the Nacra 17 MK1 to the Nacra 15, because I (90kg) mostly sail single-handed. The question is how the Nacra 15 will sail with 150 to 170 kg at 15 to 20 knots of wind?

@@joy2sail_de yes in 15+ 170Kg combined crew weight is a ton of fun!

@@joy2sail_de keep in mind ideal weight for nacra 15 is 110-120 kg so 170 is only fun from 18+ I think

Hey Ben that's great input thank you. How/why does the mainsheet help lift bows - is there a theory for that? You think we should have run with more diamond tension? I agree I need to grow up and trapeze lower...

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboatsthe mainsheet help lift bow because you redirect the power of the sail more to the side of the boat and not the front, you may have a little loss of speed but in the long term it's quicker because your speed is more constant. hope you understood! have a nice day!

Ha ha ha - well, CDR is a large mixed fleet regatta, there were 20+ multihulls and 50+ monohulls. That one was a crazy one - first half almost no wind, most boats abandoned. Took 4hs to get to the mark... the wind picked up and then 40 minutes to return.

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats 4h upwind?!?! aahahaa did you bring lunch? :)

@@pedromarcos1472 it was truly awful - i think we had fruit with us. But building up the resilience - many fun regattas here are long distance races. We load up the camelbacks with Gatorade and go...

@@MartinHoffFoilingSailboats yeahh thats way too much time, specially if its low wind, and i guess those big boats probably win upwind in very light breeze. A friend of mine has a old tornado that blasts everything under 8 knots