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existentialsailor
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Initially Posted - 10/06/2005 :  11:56:31  Show Profile
One of the Capri 25 members posted a picture of his Capri doing 10 kts.
He was solo sailing it at the time:



Go Simon Go!!
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/06/2005 :  12:09:32  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
It makes me miss my Merit 25. I am sure my Catalina 25 can do that, I just need a new keel stepped mast, rod rigging and an 80 mph gale.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 10/06/2005 :  14:20:46  Show Profile
I did 10 knots on a Catalina 22 one day...on just a mainsail! (Measured on 2 accurate knotmeters!)
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 10/10/2005 :  08:58:50  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
I had my C25 tall rig doing 13 knots on a downwind run with spinnaker, 12-15 knots of wind, and surfing 4 foot waves. An exilerating experience to say the least.
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Pokey uh da LBC
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Response Posted - 10/10/2005 :  09:38:57  Show Profile
hmmm
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 10/10/2005 :  12:34:35  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">hmmm<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">No kidding. If you get any boat sliding down the face of a wave, it gains a surprising amount of speed. I had it happen on my old C22, and didn't have any way of measuring the speed, except that the keel cable hummed at a pitch I'd never heard before, and I felt a vibration in the tiller that I'd never felt. "Exhilarating" is the right word for it! That kind of speed only lasts until you get to the bottom of the wave, then you have to catch another wave.
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 10/14/2005 :  09:44:24  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
While doing the 13 knots I was also dragging a partialy water-filled zodiac. As I think back on it, if I hadn't been dragging the dinghie, I might have been in very real danger of crashing the bow into the back of the next wave and pitch poling. A dangerous situation indeed and one I have not repeated since.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 10/19/2005 :  08:53:26  Show Profile
My personal best is 8.4kts as measured by my knotmeter.
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