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From: dominiquebovey

To: harryproa@...

Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:04 AM

Subject: [harryproa] Re: sailing Visionarry

Great!!!

Congrats for all the good work, looks very promising! I would say a
cruiser sailing at 11.5kn in 15kn wind _with_a_dirty_hull_ is far from
bad!!! No production cruising cat in the 11-12m range I know of would
do that, except maybe an empty Outremer.

If I can find back this damn AUD250k cheque I'll let you know ;-)

Probably when the hull is scraped the close to the wind performance
will be (even) better.

Looking forward to see tze pics and videos.

How was the boat loaded for the test sail?

Cheers,
Dominique


--- In harryproa@..., "Rob Denney" <proa@i...> wrote:
> G'day,
>
> Went for a sail last week.  The boat is fantastic.  Does everything
it was meant to, no creaks or groans, steers and shunts easily, all
the systems work and the standard of build and finish is very high.
>
> There were a few niggles, namely the rudder brackets need some extra
bracing (Mark is doing this this week), the main is too flat for the
mast (sailmaker should be able to sort this out) and the cockpit cover
is a bit too large for seeing the sails, although it does provide a
great shady lounging area.
>
> Performance was good, but not stunning, due to the main, some extra
weight onboard and 6 months of growth (about 10mms/three eighths of an
inch of coral and weed) on the bottoms.  Top speed was 11.5 knots by
gps, the local weather centre got a top of 15 knots wind speed for the
day. Sailing at windspeed should not be a problem when the boat is
sorted.   It tacked through 100 degrees at about 7.5 knots.  Under
motor, we did 8 knots and turned either way in 2-3 boat lengths.
Shunting took 40 seconds, but will be half this with a bit of
practise.  Rig balance was good, the carbon mast track worked a treat
as did the open topped boom.  Helm balance was reasonable, will be
improved with a bit of rake tweaking.
>
> Luke Timmerman came along for the sail and took some photos and a
video.  With a bit of luck, he will post his impressions of the boat
in the near future.   Sometime between now and New Year we will get
some off the boat photos and videos of the boat sailing.  These will
be posted on the web page as soon as possible. 
>
> All in all, a very successful day, enhanced by an order for 1,000m
of 80mm x 2.5mm wall carbon tube using a variation of the technique we
used on the masts.  Because of the bulk buying savings, we are selling
this at $AUS120 per metre, up to 10.5m lengths.  The following day, I
did an Outleader kite demonstration on a 12m cruising mono.  Put it up
in 25 knots, hit 10 knots under perfect control, had the cheque before
we had finished tying up. 
>
> regards,
>
> rob