Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Idefix VI launched

Idefix VI had her first sail. She did quite allright, got foiling in winds of 12 Kts at 310 degree. The battens poped out during the first sail out, so came back and increased the mast curvuture and tightend the battens. The trampolines are equipped with inflatable devices which have much to much boyancy making it very difficult to climb aboard. Maybe it's a question of getting use to it. There also some trimming to do with the stabilizer, Idefix VI had a tendency of takeoff with to much pitch and then stalling and falling back down. Moving forward helped but the stabiliser needs to give more lift. The wand itself worked well. Overall quite a bit of tuning needs to be done but she has great potential.

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