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Initially Posted - 03/20/2012 :  14:59:47  Show Profile  Visit superbob's Homepage
From the March 2012 Latitude 38 "Letters"

THEY CALL IT 'KEEL WALKING'

Holy crap, what a set of big ones Alex Thomson has! I'm referring to the February 3 'Lectronic video of him standing on the canting keel — in a suit, no less — while his Finot-Conq designed IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss was hauling ass. It's a great future ad for a local hull cleaning company . . . scrub your keel on the way to the finish line.

Bill Kelly
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Bill — It's was quite a stunt, even for the swashbuckling 37-year-old Brit. But Thomson, the head of Alex Thomson Racing, is that kind of guy. If we're not mistaken, he still owns the record for the best 24-hour run, 468 miles, by a solo monohull sailor. That's an average of 19.5 knots.

Apparently he attempted the same stunt a while back, but skeptics accused him of Photoshopping it. So this time his team filmed it. It wasn't easy to pull off, as Hugo Boss driver Ross Daniel needed 17 to 19 knots of wind and less than three-foot seas to heel the boat between 45 and 70 degrees (!) to get the four-ton keel sufficiently out of the water for the required 45 seconds. Ironically, the boat needed to be going a relatively pedestrian nine knots.

And here's the video posted on You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2PQfJ2SAg4
Bob Watson
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I don't expect anyone to believe it, but I did something similar on a Force Five racing dinghy. As it began to roll on its side in a capsize, I rolled over the gunwale and stepped on the daggerboard, putting my weight on it to prevent it from turning turtle. When it began to roll back onto its bottom, I rolled back over the gunwale and into the cockpit, without so much as getting my foot wet.
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  17:24:54  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Steve Milby</i>
<br />I don't expect anyone to believe it, but I did something similar on a Force Five racing dinghy. As it began to roll on its side in a capsize, I rolled over the gunwale and stepped on the daggerboard, putting my weight on it to prevent it from turning turtle. When it began to roll back onto its bottom, I rolled back over the gunwale and into the cockpit, without so much as getting my foot wet.
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Standard practice on Laser's. Round the bouy, turtle, next bouy.



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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  18:27:42  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Steve Milby</i>
<br />I don't expect anyone to believe it, but I did something similar on a Force Five racing dinghy...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I believe it--did it quite a few times on my Sunfish. One foot on the dagger-board and one foot on the side of the knee-well. As long as I caught it early enough, there was no need to put the other foot over. Besides, the wet, varnished board was kinda slippery!
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