Saturday, August 01, 2015
2015 International 14 North Americans at the Gorge - Drone Footage
Amazing video footage from a drone of the I-14s racing at the Gorge last weekend.
The RS Aeros - also sailing their NAs on the same circle - make a brief appearance but the I-14s are the stars of this show. What spectacular boats!
2 comments:
Great video! As an old 14'er from wayback, the boats impress me now, not so much for the offwind speeds - after all they are skiffs with big assyms - but how fast they have got these 14 foot hulls going upwind. A lot of credit has to go to genius Paul Bieker who came up with a rudder foil that helps fool the water into thinking it has a bigger hull going through.
Glad you liked it. I noticed the rudder foils when the boats were out of the water. Didn't realize that they were there to fool the H2O. Brilliant!
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