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Who will be first to
50Knots?
23 June
2008, update on Wot Rocket
The Wot
Rocket team packed up at Kurnell last Friday following their most successful
week of testing according to creator and pilot Sean Langman.
Another valuable finding came from Friday’s test sail, the crew of Langman and
co-pilot Martin Thompson discovering that each time Wot Rocket’s pod went to
lift out of the water, the pilot experienced difficulties steering.
The team
realised that the rudder’s aluminium control rods were bending so this week
those rods are being replaced with carbon fibre rods. The rudder is also being
reshaped so it’s better balanced and doesn’t self-centre.
Thursday’s
forecast is the most promising for the week with a 15-20 knot WNW breeze
expected however Langman says “it will be a scramble to be ready by Thursday
given the latest round of modifications”.
He believes a weekend test sail is more realistic but with the long rang
forecast showing the breeze only hovering in the 10-12 knot range for both
Saturday and Sunday, the prospect of Wot Rocket getting up on its foils, which
is when supercavitation is expected to come into play, looks set to be deferred
for another time.
“We are
slowly clawing our way forward,” says Langman, who still has plenty of fire in
his belly, particularly with the latest threat from the French to pip him to
post in the race to break through 50 knots, the holy grail of sailing.
Speedboat takes line honours in Bermuda
Mike Sanderson, onboard Speedboat after finishing
the
"Well the goal at the first meeting to frame the concept of what the New
"Speedboat" was going to be, and its objectives was always quite
clearly defined as to a line honors win in the 2008 Newport Bermuda race, at just
after 8 am this morning local Time we cruised across the line enabling us to
tick that goal off, a 250 mile beat in between 7 and 10 knots of wind meant
that the record was long gone, but as I mentioned yesterday the time to be able
to test and play around with different modes upwind has been priceless.
"The boat has been faultless, a full credit to the big team back in Spain
at Juan Yacht design that designed her, as well as the many thousands of hours
that where put into her by the team here on Speedboat, Tom Faire and the guys
at Cookson Boats, Matt Smeaton and his team at North sails NZ, Steve Wilson and
the team at Southern Spars, Greg Waters and the crew at Central coast
hydraulics as well as many other smaller teams and individuals that have all contributed
so heavily to the speedboat program, it has been a pretty hectic 18 months
since the trigger was pulled to go ahead.
"How we end up in the race on Handicap is now out of our hands, she was
never designed with a handicap place in mind, but we will take any good results
in that game when they come along, it will prove to be a race for the smaller
boats I am pretty sure, from the forecasts it looks like there is a good chance
that the fifty footers will come reaching in at pretty high speed, but only
time will tell how that all works out.
"Now that we are here in one piece and the boat is all working well we can
now firmly set our sights on being ready for a Trans Atlantic record attempt in
July, let's hope that the wind gods shine favourably on us and we get a chance
to have a crack, I have no doubt that should we get a reasonable window that we
have the hardware to give it a great shot.
"So that's it for now from the 2008 Speedboat Newport to Bermuda race, it
has been a great race to spend some quality race time on the yacht, a great
race and opportunity to get 12 of the TEAMORIGIN team sailing together, but
most importantly it has been a great couple of weeks building the Speedboat
team, the feel on board is fantastic, all in all a great bunch of guys, but
then I guess it was always going to be, Alex, Jane and the Jackson Girls are a
lovely family to be around, what they have done here is so very cool, and I
have no doubt that it will go from strength to strength. Until next time."
Press Report/Yachting World, 23 June
2008
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