Yachts & Yachting - July 2018

No. 19 The all-on

DIFFICULTY RATING: 4/5

POSITION

More hands make light work – a cliché ringing in the ears of this GC32 team

Sometimes a picture is

exhausting and terrifying in

equal measure. You don’t have

to be a foiling expert to know

this is not a well-planned

smooth foiling gybe...

PEDRO MARTINEZ/GC32 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

T

here are times in every sailors’ racing career

when you arrive into a mark having had to

make a last minute change to your plans.

here are very few of us who cannot relate

to the feeling of heading round a leeward

mark with a sail lapping and ropes everywhere.

Add into that picture the closing speeds of the modern

generation foiling boats and things can get pretty hairy

pretty quickly. Here, this GC32 team are foiling, mid-

gybe, with the Code 0 semi-furled, all while trying to

cross the boat and keep an eye out for other boats on a

tight course, and make the leeward gate, just out of shot...

Ahh for the good old days, when setting of downwind

meant breaking out the suncream and sandwiches.

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