Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat Tour: Turning, Emergency Hatches, Ballast And The Hydraulic Keel
Bruce Mahoney continues his tour of the Team Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat. If you like sailing and high performance vehicles, you’ll get something out of this video.
Apologies again for the shakey cam. Didn’t have a wide enough angle on board that day, nor the mic range to make it work.
Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone, and decodes human motion. He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time skiing Tahoe and sailing in Santa Cruz. He’ll share his Transpac 2009 sailing race with us live from the Pegasus Open 50. He and Mark Christensen set the race record for a double handed team in 2008 with a time of 7 days, 15 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds, besting all boats in overall time for that year.
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@meow-mixer: Google it. You're probably thinking of a sail working the way a spinnaker does. Think of the sail more like a wing than something that catches the wind.
takeshi
@Jim Topoleski: Excellent use of keyboard to illustrate your point. I have never seen it explained better.
@Jim Topoleski: Dead on. You really don't understand it truly though, until you've been out on a boat doing 20 knots and there is no noise but the wind.
Awesome.
Zkdog
@meow-mixer: Its called tacking. You will actually go at angles to the wind.
so if the wind is going like this --->> you would be doing a tack that looks like this -->> /\/\/\/\/\ where the slashes are the boats path in the water.
Jim Topoleski
@meow-mixer: The shape of the boat makes it always cut through the water in the direction it's facing. Going upwind is crazy awesome! You should try kiteboarding.
As much as I love boats, I really have no idea what's going on...
I never understood the whole sail thing. if the sale is facing - and the wind is going ->, how is the boat supposed to go <-?? Mind boggling.
meow-mixer
@Brian Lam: Just so you know, I'm loving the personal attention that you are paying to the comments on these articles, especially the, shall we say, less than courteous ones. And I'm loving the Pegasus too. So jealous of you guys.
farcedude
@meow-mixer: It is also very important to remember that there's a big ass keel in the works there too. Without that, tacking (and sailing in general) is virtually impossible. Unless you are using an old triumph sports car as the boat ala James May.
I still don't understand how that actually worked.
tek_nic
Not ignoring your apologies about the video qual, but c'mon Giz, give this man a real camera!
wishnias
@IrisCossus: thanks for your feedback. by the way, you spelled which as witch, which I knew how to spell when I was 5.
@meow-mixer:
To add to your confusion think of the hull of the boat as a wing too. Sailboats can travel faster than the speed of the wind. The hull acts like suction and pulls the boat much like lift pulls the wing up. Also, in fast boats the bigger & wider the waterline/hull, the faster the boat is. Like airplane wings, one of the fastest wings is from a 747-400.
bradc130
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
Tirkoâ„¢
fire the asshole-witch filmed this
IrisCossus
When going downwind the wind more or less pushes the boat like you're thinking. When going upwind the sails act like huge wings and there's a lift force created pushing the boat somewhat sideways. Thats where the keel keeps the boat from sliding and redirects the force forward.
John Carlson