We had an interesting final sail on Peter's Firebird in the most wind I sailed in when in Barbados - we sailed with 2 reefs. Peter's friend Eric has a foiling waveboard and he wanted to foil behind the Firebird. In the end he managed it, but there was lots of falling in at the beginning. It was hard work for Peter and I as we had to start at near zero speed, so Eric could grab the tow rope, then slowly accelerate to about 7 knots so he could get ready for lift off. Then accelerate to 10 knots very quickly, so he could lift out. And then control the speed at 10-12 rather than surge up to 15-18. But of course the wind would drop, or he'd fall in or.... but, as I say, after 2 hours he did manage to fly for maybe 30 secs. Although, if we were quick enough, we could stop and heave to after he fell in, sometimes we sailed on too far and then we had to pull in the tow rope (we discovered it was too easy to get it entangled on rudders and daggerboards), tack round and sail back. As always it was scary how quickly a head disappears from view. But interestingly we could easily see him when he was in the sun, it was when he was north of us that he became invisible (one of his sons kept a very close eye on Dad, religiously pointing to his position). Flat water helped, and lots of passing day charter cats got a bit confused by seeing a swimmer apparently a mile out to sea but happily waving!

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Warum die Shogun 43 aus Schweden ein Unikum ist? Den Test seht ihr jetzt im Hauptkanal von YACHT tv.

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NOST - AL - GIAAAAAA 😍

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For more boat videos, visit www.boats.com. It's rare we test a bay boat, and find that it has each and every ideal trait we covered in Bay Boat Battles: What Makes One Better Than Another. It's even more rare we decide to run a bay boat 10 miles outside of the inlet, and stay out there for hours. And it's beyond rare that we'd do so on a day when it was blowing 15 knots and three to four foot swells were rolling through the ocean. Yet when we heard there was a hot bite going off we pointed the bow east, ran through the open sea, and fished out there long enough to catch a slew of cobia, bonito, and kingfish. Just how did it feel to be aboard Pathfinder's 2600 HPS Bay Crusher? A picture may be worth 1,000 words but the video you're about to watch is worth just one: awesome.

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