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Power to Weight: Your Stance vs Antoine’s

Power to Weight: Your Stance vs Antoine’s

After the Antoine Albeau domination of the 2007 FW Worlds in Brazil, a great post was written by Andreas Macke posing some ideas on how one man could dominate an event so much. One thing to consider is that Antoine is around 100kg whereas 2nd placed Steve Allen was 82kg at the event. Power-to-weight plays [...]

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The new Gaastra Vapor board review

The new Gaastra Vapor board review

The rumours were in fact quite true… Gaastra planned to join the formula board market late in 2007 and delivered to their every word with the release of the Gaastra Vapor 2008/09 FW board. To comply with the ISAF regulations of a minimum production run of 10 boards, Gaastra has already produced the first 10 [...]

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Want to Improve? Recommended Reading

High Performance Sailing - Frank Bethwaite Sail Performance - C.A. Marchaj A Manual of Sail Trim - Stuart Walker Physics of Sailing Explained - Bryon Anderson Meteorology at the Millenium - International Geophysics Wind Strategy - Sail To Win