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Lenny
06-04-2006, 12:06 AM
Swiftsure is a yearly event. It is a 200 mile race on the outside (Pacific Ocean) of the Island. Some years it is BRUTAL, some years, no wind. Well the Sunday finish this year had multi hulls running JUST shy of 30 knots. And they are 40-50 feet to boot. Here is a clip of one that did not fair so well. :)

Looks like fun tho :D


http://www.pacificfog.net/Temp/CatSass.swf

MOP
06-04-2006, 08:19 AM
I have pitch poled a smaller cat it happens pretty fast not like the slow frame shots on that site, hope they all came out Ok. Even some of the small racing cats can make some real fast speeds. I was on the committee boat for one of or bigger races, we had 6 stations that we would move to along the way to keep an eye on things, a 20 cat was so fast we had to jump the each next station well before our usual time. He would come seemingly out of nowhere throwing quite a set of rooster tails, thankfully we had a 25 Grady with twin 250's or he would have beat us to the finish line.

Phil