I'm gonna be testing
the Nacra 15 on a crew
race as we call it, so
as part of Weymouth speed week here we're gonna be
sailing and trying to get the top speed
and I think the quickest time
across the course. I'm going to crew for Sam first
and then Jess is gonna crew for Sam and
were going to see who is the best
crew so see if its worth
sort of investing in
your British Sailing Team crew or not
Obviously im used to
sailing the Nacra 17 so im
kinda hoping I've got abit of a
edge there and I'll
know how to react, how the boat's
gonna sort of react and how to deal with that
but, but then we've got the
unknown factor of Sam on the back
on the back steering so
could be a bit of bucking bronco potentially
So, i've sailed the Nacra 15 before it was foiling
for two years, it's very
quick and you have to be
really reactive with it so with the
breeze today we'll see how it goes but
might have a few a
tumbles, I'm abit more nimble maybe im abit
smaller than Kirsty a bit lighter
so i might be able to get across the boat a bit quicker
but apart from that, she's pretty good
crew so we will see.
Sam's waszp sailing is obviously going to help him
he's got to trapeze today, and
that is a complete unknown for me
and for him, I haven't trapezed much
over the past years but um
I , i am pretty confident i've
got a reasonable foiling experience from my
waszp so i think i can put on
a good show hopefully and maybe
get some uh good top speeds
You seem nervous are you nervous?
No I'm fine
oh s***
you alright?
This is
the, the much
anticipated
big reveal of the
was it sustained, the sustained
top speed first.
So who thinks they've got it?
Well I think I
was a reasonably good helm
You know what I think you probably
got the sustained top speed
I think i probably won this one you know
so, Jess
is it you? Kirsty
is it you?
I'm gonna gokirsty [laughter]
so here we go
Jess
at 17 knots
sustained and close
behind Kirsty at 16.1
oh very good
well done, that was
just that bit before our big nose dive
how long is the sustained speed
20 seconds isn't it, i think over 20
seconds which is actually quite a long average isn't it
out in those conditions, ok so
that's uh one nil to Jess
we're now
i think is the one we're most keen on
isnt it the top speed
Peak, we like a good
peak speed dun dun dun
so who , now now
we have the sustained one
who do we think
Kirsty you backing yourself
yeah backing her speed for this one
ohhh
[laughter]
there is controversial scores
the wild card Jess,
21.9 in
first place there, and again
not so far off only uh 2 knots
behind Kirsty 19.9
is to beat, well done
though, the
practice definitely did help and i think obviously
the breeze picking up as the day
went on aswell i definitely got
the larger gust which probably helped
um but he did really well to
keep it straight and well done to Kirsty for
getting up to standard before i went on
ugh im just so i
wanna be out back out there, i really wanna
push it i wanna [laughter]
Just um disappointed in myself
I've let the team down i've let Rupert down
Just
How do you think your team mates are gonna react when they find out
whats happened. Oh he'll be
off, Jess
welcome to team white erwin