The World Sailing Show - March 2020

On this Month's World Sailing Show:
00:46 RORC Caribbean 600
04:27 World Cup Series Miami
12:57 Foiling Into The Future
18:07 News
20:45 IDEC Tea Route Record

[@markpinnington2985]

Marvelous catch up on world sailing. Keep up the brilliant videos.

[@malibu188]

Spectacular content and production. Great show.

[@AtomicSquirrelHunter]

Watching those giant foils almost gives me the same thrills as watching fighter jets.

[@TomKirkman1]

Game changer? Hobie-Ketterman TriFoiler. Still the best foiler ever designed and built.

[@lancedaniels]

Thanks for posting and sharing the great information!

[@annteve]

Good to see Canada in the races and in contention. Congratulations.

[@222tifi]

Setting out from Hong Kong dreaming of reaching.... the Dartford Crossing. The romance of Sailing..

[@TheMrMikeo]

Thanks guys enjoy this roundup.

[@pikethree]

Wow, blimen nailbiting stuff. You helped me find a single hand boat I want, the Finn, ta for that. As far as those monster boats pitchpoling! No effin way. I'll stick to wee boats dumping me in the briny, not smashing into stuff from 30 feet up ! I'll leave that for the insane Yea, excellent one this! Top marks for editing and commentary. Professional stuff

[@roadie3124]

The Finn has an old, slow hull design (1949) and is very, very hard work. In my opinion, the only reason to sail one is if you're dedicated to winning Olympic Gold. If you're looking for something like a Finn, then the OK dinghy was designed in the mid 1950s to be a less demanding entry to the Finn world. I built one in 1967. It's less hard work and I think that it's more fun to sail. The Contender from the late 1960s, designed by Bob Miller who became Ben Lexcen, should have replaced the Finn in the Olympics. Light weight, single-handed, trapeze. So much more fun to sail than those older, mid-performance boats. Less experienced sailors are likely to go for a few swims. It's a bit hard-core. There are a lot of single-handers that are more modern and less demanding. My personal opinion is that the Laser is a great little dinghy. It's simple and fun to sail and race. You can also get serious. My all-time favourite single-hander is the A-Class catamaran. OK. It's a high-performance single-hander with trapeze, and unsuitable for a novice sailor. But if you have some experience and a sense of balance, it's very easy to sail. It's much easier to get on and off the trapeze than a contender. It's not easy to win races at the top level, but just sailing one is an absolute joy.

[@pikethree]

@@roadie3124 Thank you for taking the time to tell me this stuff. I was looking at a Lazer, never considered a catamaran! Definitely have a look if I can afford one. Thank you

[@roadie3124]

@@pikethree No worries. If you do get interested in an A-Class, make sure that you're a competent sailor first. You should check out sailing clubs in your area. Find one that sails the boat that you want to sail. Make sure that it's a friendly place. Instant support group. Just buying a boat and sailing it by yourself can be lonely.

[@ludviglinderas1719]

@@pikethree i think the RS Aero is an better alternative than the Laser. It's an easy boat to sail and the design is new and innovative. The best thing is probably to try a few different boats at a sailing club then decide what to buy"

[@dragonfly8080808]

Great episode, great fun great sport!

[@davidc6510]

Wow 50 knots in the new competition sail boats with foils - amazing!

[@ianclay5035]

Love this show!

[@JIMPETRAKIS69]

Super nice!

[@TheSoling27]

spring is here - yay

[@seangelarden8753]

I wish I could have shown this to Herreshoff

[@ilarigraf9807]

Please could you ask and mention top speeds, average speeds? More speed statistics in general. Since the foils are capable for great speeds it would be great to hear from them :)

[@fil18031999]

For me it seems like what the 470M on the downwind are doing would be pumping 🤔

[@fprintf]

Pretty disappointing to see whatever pumping they were doing. I don't think that type of kinetics should be part of sailing, especially bouncing on the wire and vibrating your way along the course.

[@reidw1978]

They have a class rule that allows kinetics given certain conditions

[@fprintf]

@@reidw1978 Yes, however I don't think it looks right seeing the guy on the wire humping along. It's allowed it just looks odd and seems against decades of sailing tradition.

[@somechanel]

can I be a cook in this female crew!?

[@paulgush]

Overall, a nice video. But you did a disservice to the history of foiling by saying _nothing_ about The Moth. At the time of the 2013 America’s Cup many commentators got giddy about how this fantastic new technology would trickle down into other classes. They were dead wrong. Fouling was pioneered by people working on small budgets in their garages.

[@GermanGreetings]

Denmark GP !

[@deezynar]

How many fish get sliced up by hydrofoils?

[@deuxexmachina8736]

Hearing of damage and dashed hopes due to submerged foils striking whales and other creatures fatally, one wonders if the cost of developing marine animal alerting technology combined with automated sonar/lidar wildlife avoidance systems is beyond consideration for the likes of Ineos and Edmund de Rothchild. Perhaps they hate marine life competing for space in the vast ocean aka, their playground and brand building venue? Such systems could preserve their precious scythes of the sea, improving their reliability in races while showing a modicom of consideration for ocean life.

[@quasarcreator]

It's not pronounced "Gee - long" but instead like the '"ger" in "germany"

[@keatonhare7691]

You might call the lead unna-sail-able

[@TheBruceTR]

Video editing... well done! Snippets... not too short, not too long... allowed me to see what's going on in each snippet (water conditions, wind conditions, boat movement, crew movement, panorama, etc.). Audio mixing... I suggest a slight increase in the voice-over volume and a slight decrease in the soundtrack volume. Remember, for the most part, viewers aren't listening on high-end audio systems (like the one you use to mix the audio). Thus, what you hear isn't what viewers hear. Therefore, slight adjustments to the audio mix will make it easier for viewers to hear the voice over.

[@paulwheeler8271]

-70th

[@craigwalker9121]

Script writers some attention to your work please " The spinnaker filled with water and over it went , I think not . The reverse would be logical

[@TheDowntimesfl]

The vid showed them dunking the sail and rolling because of the drag........

[@jessicalouissaint122]

uhm sorry, but true regatta sailing is still in one design classes, the rest is just nothing.

[@drbendover7467]

if you could pump it well pump it what a BS rule:)

[@kyleclifton490]

The number of comments on this video is the number of sailors in the world. 7

[@Fr99763]

The french women unable to give an interview in anything but french! That is very telling for the state of that country...

[@yota1092]

Let me laugh are you able to speak in any other language than your native one ?

[@Fr99763]

Hugo PROSPER : yep, 4 of them

[@darrenkastl8160]

@@yota1092 you missed the point that you were trying to make.