Single handed in the bumps

Matey's, grab a beer, buckle up and hang on for the ride! You gotta check this out!

Enjoy

Rambo

Submitted by Rambo on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 7:46pm



like skiff sailing on a larger scale, and your balls in your throat.


#1 Tue, 07/01/2008 - 8:29pm


Can you imagine oc1 on some of those huge bumps.

Rambo


#2 Tue, 07/01/2008 - 10:23pm


Those boats are cool to say the least , kind of looks like a really big Laser.

http://maineoutriggerchampionships.blogspot.com/


#3 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 12:55am


It is toughest than you imagine. This boat is the winner of the last Vendée Globe, in 2004-2005.
This is a solitary race with no assistance, i.e. the skipper can't have any help from someone giving him a route. The only help they can get is from a doctor. In 1992 Bertrand de Broc had to sew back his tongue by himself, he could have stopped in a port to get some surgery done in a hospital, but he would have then be DQed...
This boat PRB, skipped by Vincent Riou, holds the record of the race 87 days 10 hours 47 min 55 sec !
Next edition will start on November 9th 2008.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/


#4 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 1:12am


Dude, Rambo, thanks for sharing. that was badass. Those guys have huge balls. Jeezus. Insane.


#5 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 7:38am


Thanks for sharing, but get your priorities straight and get cracking on the Hammo Video.


#6 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 7:58am


Totally badass.

Song made me think of Zoolander though.


#7 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 9:21am


That was bad a$$ Rambo. Incredible. I once did the Molokai channel in a canoe sail race from Lahaina to Waikiki beach and we hit 17 knots a few time. That scared the crap out me, but wow the adrenaline rush....

Can you imagine what this guys is feeling?? I would be screaming at the top of my lungs!! WWWHHHHAAATTTT TTTHHEEE FFF&&&$$$KKK AAAMMM IIIII DDDOOOIIINNNGGG OOOUUUTTT HHHEEERRREEE AAALLLOOONNNEEE!!!!!!!


#8 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 12:37pm


The Open 60 are bad ass but another class that takes real guts guts is Mini transat boats that are 21 feet long and sail from france to brasil 4000 miles every 2 years on the transat

Have been lucky to be involved in a couple of campaigns and built quite a few.


#9 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 1:17pm


Wow!

4000 miles in 2 years - is that good??


#10 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 2:53pm


Is it just me or did he 'jump' a sail boat overtop a wave @ 1:09 in the clip?


#11 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 5:12pm


Yeah, looked like airtime.


#12 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 5:15pm


Rambo,

I have watched this video about 20 times today!


#13 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 9:18pm


Rambo, that is awesome mate!

It now stands in my mind as the number 1 use of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax"........ previously held by Aussie broadcaster, Channel 9 when they used it as the promo music for the 88 Winter Olympics............move over Eddie the Eagle, Vinnie the Viper is coming through.....and he CAN jump!

BTW....YOU can paddle YOUR OC1 in that.........

Bloody hell, I reckon if sharks made documentaries, they'd be about Vincent Riou.....!


#14 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 9:28pm


Yeah, i keep playin' it over and over myself. This is the perfect coming together of Technology and Mother Nature, but i know the old Polynesian Voyager's would have handled this stuff in their own ancient ways and the thrill would have been the same for them.

Cheers Rambo


#15 Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:22pm


Minitransat takes cca 30 days for the crpsing in two legs but it is definetly a fasat boat one of mine has a record of 295 miles in 24 hours on the first leg of the transat 2007

.popaj.info/tube/index.php?en=youtube&q=4ocean


#16 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 1:02am


man, that speed gets the blood going... seeing that bow wake blasting like a firehose... like when you drop in on a big bump on a run and the spray drenches you, but instead of dropping speed, just keeps plowing through... very cool.

rambo you're right the beauty of it is the technology harnessing mother nature, and not technology praying on the altar of raw horsepower...

kind of nuts blasting full speed in the dark- i read an article where a catamaran was trying to break the speed record crossing the atlantic and was busting along at 40-50 knots and hit a log- no record obviously...

canoemaker, you must have some good stories on those transat campaigns eh?


#17 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 6:02am


canoemaker which boats have you built, and who's campaigns have you worked on. I have several friend in the mini fleet,


#18 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 7:51am


509 ,510, 551 ,630 are the best i we built ,all top designs.the latest 630 is realy bad ass very light built fully out of carbon unidirectional fibre probably one of the lightest in the mini fleet


#19 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 1:14pm


Nice, My friend brian Caldwell has 433


#20 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 7:04pm


433 is a transat winning boat your frient bought from Corentin my 509 & 510 are sisterships out of the same mould which i have in my back yard.,but built to a bit higher specs as we really had a big budget ,plus the boats are a bit newer so some evolutionary changes did hapen

Here an impresive vid of a storm on breton coast.
.4ocean.si/kristian/?p=118


#21 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:30pm


Hard to believe those structures stay up.

Thanks for the great videos


#22 Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:42pm


Design and technology from the aircraft industry allied to heavy engineering
shows up in these ballasted sailboats; the paddling factor is nowhere
evident.

Outriggers do the stability trick on canoes, where a heavy metal keel does
it for modern sailing monos, but a paddle is still the real deal on a
sailing canoe. Sure! 250 mile a day runs on a 21 foot sailboat is awesome,
and this is not possible without lightweight carbon composite construction.
But when it comes down to the soul of paddling then hi-tech technology is
redundant.


#23 Sat, 07/05/2008 - 12:55pm


I believe that the record for monohulls is 500+ miles in 24 hours and over 700 miles for a multihull. Talk about being on a screaming reach.


#24 Sat, 07/05/2008 - 1:09pm


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