Key West Race Week

Cheers to whoever paid for that helo...

i agree on the "race losing' slow hoist there, damn sloppy or do sprit boats do slower hoists or what never sailed one. unless it can plane no use for a sprit tactically weak...

I raced on two Synergy 1000's, one with a bowsprit & asym, the other converted to symmetric with a pole. Hoist takes about the same time either way. Looks like they had some sort of hangup or something for such a slow hoist.

I prefer symmetric chutes. Cleaner gybes, and (for me) easier to sort out the lines as a bowman. Symmetric the lines (sheet & guy) make sense, asym they always seemed like an illogical tangle. But I grew up sailing in the old days with symmetric chutes.

somebody overstood the mark there !!!

Both boats did, and slow hoist... maybe it was a tactical move by the leeward boat?

Thats the idea. Take the overtaking boat to the outside.

What's up with the slow hoist?:)

Very kool!!

you'd think they could of found a better class to follow than the j boats... plus its making me dizzy