nice anecdote
we always liked when we could (due to wife ex, kids at that time) get to south shore at Brid.
this one day four of us sailed in a force 4 cross off with varying degrees of difficulty trying to
get back to shore, 1 plonker put up a 6m on a long board and nearly the last i saw of...
back in the 90s i had a Fanatic Cat race board all carbon a big big skeg and a huge dagger board this linked up with a (at that time)Tushingham camber induced sail got you as close to the wind as you could get and tacking very fast, Fanatic improved the board with
the Cat 2 which could rail a...
gramps all to do with angle of attack, windspeed and size of sail and
friction
say you had a 5mph wind a sail on the bike which harnesses the wind
and the sail was 5m in area this would generate quite a large force
especially if the angle of the sail was perfect to the wind and i would
have...