08 July 2008
(machine translated in 2023) A wonderful speed evening at Herkingen. Couldn't leave work until late, so was in Herkingen at 17:00. Quickly rigged the Daytona 6.6 with the S-Type. Wind was clearly too little for the Missile. Once rigged directly in 1 spacious rak to the entrance of the harbor. Once in the harbor it was flat and good speeding, angle was perpendicular to the dam, so both in and out of the harbor speed could be made, but you had to be spacious and into the chop to really make speed. Not ideal, but not very bad either. Wind was very perpendicular to the dam, but the speeds were certainly not bad.
Herkingen
17:15 | 1 hour | Wind: W/SW |
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Board: | Starboard S-Type 104 - MFC SL 34cm | |
Sail: | North Daytona 6.6 - North Viper 75 460cm - HPL Slalom 177-238 | |
(machine translated in 2023) Set ran well, could easily walk height, even without speed. I certainly could have gone with the MFC SL 32cm. Max 63.2 km/h on the GPS, not bad. Wind became quite strong. Unfortunately, the corner was not spacious enough. |
18:30 | 2 hour | Wind: W/SW |
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Board: | F2 Missile - MFC SL 30cm | |
Sail: | North Warp F2005 5.8 - North Viper Wave 430cm - HPL Slalom 177-238 | |
(machine translated in 2023) Finally being able to test the Missile. Ran well, unfortunately the wind was not strong enough and not spacious enough, so with 0.6 km / h too short no PR, but still 66.6 km / h. With the MFC SL 30cm I could easily plant and also easily walk height. Can definitely sail with a smaller fin. Board runs really nice. Easy, control, free. Really had fun on this board. I didn't expect that. The Warp was just at minimum, even just below minimum. But with so little wind, that was necessary. I am very curious how long the sail can be kept when the trim is at max. Cambers handled pretty well now. Sometimes with a fairly hard blow. Sail sailed very stable and predictable. |