The water temperature in Dubai is cold. I spent a lot of time on the water this weekend and spent most of it pretty chilly. It has been overcast and friday I was at the yacht club at 8am. Grogs was with me and did some invaluable video work and sorted out a few little technique issues I have been having on the new boat.
He is going to come out with me on monday as well and try and make me do some pressure situation drills. So after three hours on the water by myself the rest of the gang turned up to come for a sail. I feel real happy with the work that I did on friday. Afternoon session was finding some modes with these new KA 13′s we have. Glenny has a very fast mode and was cruising on 16 knots upwind in 18 ture. We did some downwind modes late in the day about 4pm, I still not really figiured that bit out yet.
Saturday the breeze was not very good in the morning so did some boat work. It came in about 2 and we were back out. We had some low riding practice when the big cloud sucked all the breeze up. The breeze came back in for another three hours so spent saturday doing upwind to a mark and back over and over and over and over. I am completely fooked now so will give today a miss before i do monday tuesday and wednesday afternoons on the water.
Rob had his new Assassin out for the first time this weekend. He had a few teething issues. I had a sail on it on saturday afternoon for 10 minutes. It feels soo different. I do like the material the wing covers are made from. Being on the foils reminds me of being on a hover craft in Florida. It would take some time to figure out how all the systems work on it, there seems to be a lot less flap movement on thoes boats than I have seen before.
Anyway, not long to go now until people arrive. Happy days! See you all soon.
I think if you had gone sailing at Rutland this weekend your definition of cold water would be rapidly re-appraised…
So what exactly is cold water in Dubai?
Chris, the Assassin is actually very simple, it has 30 deg of flap movement there to use, (I think a BR has low 20 deg of total flap movement) we have approx 10 deg spare travel for owner tuning for the conditions. The gearing screw on bow controls this and needs to be set to max length to get max flap movement which can be up to 25 degrees with up to 11.5deg negative. In the sloppy conditions the stiff wand needs to be on the shortest hole.
PS thanks for helping Rob, wish we were there, sorry we are not but too much on here!
Cookie you guys are mad, we moan if the water hits low teens down here
water is as cold as in the Gorge. I am in my super warm right now and was cold on the water last night. I only had a long rashie on the top though.