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28-05-2011, 20:47
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Butler
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck?
yeah set up... shot from the
boat
getting the shave. A club
race
where folks know each other I imagine. One of the grrls/guys putting out the course markers pre-race agreed to take some "cool vid" of another members'
boat
in action.
28-05-2011, 22:39
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IslandMariner
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Location: Cowichan Bay
Boat: CL16
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
I'd say "Pure Skill". Niiiiice tack.
29-05-2011, 02:21
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David_Old_Jersey
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
I'd like to the outtakes.......my guess is that 8 out 10 times he could place her within a few feet.
Can't see the harm myself.
29-05-2011, 04:07
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barnakiel
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
Quite amazing to watch how tightly she turns and how fast she picks up on the new tack! Don't try this with your Westsail ;-)))
b.
29-05-2011, 04:14
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Hannah on 'Rita T'
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
My vote is for staged and edited afterwards to get that smooth a tack.
29-05-2011, 05:03
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swagman
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
No
safety
issues in my book either. It was clearly staged, the guys on the phot boat looked cool. So I am I.
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29-05-2011, 05:09
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thinwater
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Butler
yeah set up... shot from the boat getting the shave. A club
race
where folks know each other I imagine. One of the grrls/guys putting out the course markers pre-race agreed to take some "cool vid" of another members' boat in action.
OK, I'm convinced. Staged.
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29-05-2011, 05:56
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Blue Crab
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
barnakiel
Quite amazing to watch how tightly she turns and how fast she picks up on the new tack! Don't try this with your Westsail ;-))) b.
Or one of them new-fangled bunchahulls!
29-05-2011, 06:12
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bangkaboat
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
Very cool video! Made my wife & I jump!
29-05-2011, 09:10
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svnakia
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Location: Honolulu, HI
Boat: Hans Christian 33 NAKIA
Posts: 54
Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Factor
Clear Breach of Sect 43 the Transport Operations
Marine
Safety
Act if you did that in front of a
shipping
inspector in this part of the world. Skilful yes, but so is dropping a mono at 150kph in peak hour traffic on a sports bike, and you would get arrested for that.
Are you suggesting the
skipper
should be charged with a crime?
There was no contact, no damage and in spite of what the edited sound track leads us to think no one, including the person setting the mark seemed to be the least bit concerned. For all we know this was a race crew practicing close quarter turns with their own
tender
.
I've never had the pleasure to sail on a boat like that, I'm not good enough, but I've sailed in many races near
boats
like that and I can say without hesitation that I'd rather have one of these guys turning withing 5 feet of my boat then the average cruising boat turning within .5 mile.
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29-05-2011, 11:31
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SkiprJohn
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
That was a practice turn. They had not set the
racing
buoy yet. Of course it wasn't safe and the young lady deploying the buoy was in
danger
of gettting hit by the
bowsprit
if anything went wrong in their turn. Cutting close to a deployed buoy is a little different than cutting close to a person deploying a buoy.
Racing
isn't a safety conscious sport and putting someone in
danger
just for practice seems rather senseless to me.
Of course, that's just my opinion as an old
racer
.
kind regards,
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29-05-2011, 21:43
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Himself
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
E.L.Green
I would like to offer my sincere thanks to E.L.Green for
posting
this ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by
sarafina
got me all excited just watching it...
someone I know ... thought that lil video was
HOT
...
and she watched it ... over and over again ...
30 or 40 times ...
in the V berth ...
ahhh ... just saying
29-05-2011, 22:15
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Uncle Bob
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Location: Sydney Australia
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Re: Pure Skill or Pure Luck?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
sarafina
heh... racers... whatcha gonna do?
In a non competitive situation totally reprehensible, irresponsible and neglient.
But it clearly was staged. They had those HUGE bumpers and the one was pulled up outta the way and dropped in again after that turn... The person standing in the stern was very calm, the
camera
was down low for the best
camera
angle on the maneuver...
in those circumstances...
yeeeeehawwwandhowbitchinwasthat???
got me all excited just watching it...
+1
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