As horrendous as this image may be, I wonder if a pump fest might be a fun side-show for foil events and downwind races, like some kind of TV game show where you get everyone up on foil, and then set a course through the surf and the last person on foil is the winner
Taking suggestions for how to make this interesting
IMHO you don’t need to try to make an endurance event interesting. But I suppose you could give everyone one of those american gladiator padded jousting sticks.
The world record for a singles skull is 6:30 / 2km. 3:15/km pace.
I think the gear is already there to where the right setup / rider could break the rowing WR.
Photo of Oskar and Andrew coming in to the seaweed shore dump on the same wave fighting for second place so don’t take much from the time gaps of the first 4 after dismount and beach run, but yes nothing really between the lift, armstrong, code and possibly axis when it comes to all out racing. Lift 110 has stood the test of time.
Dave West had some stats, 17km, looked fast! His average is somewhere around 02:33/km. He finished equivalent ~17th, so I guess the top guys must be doing 2:10 consistently? would be keen to see what they manage.
Thanks man!
We did a local downwind race at 18.5 km in pretty good conditions for us, so was curious how our speeds compare to these “top” guys.
I took 2nd at 44:16 ~2:28/km average so yea the guys in the aussie race were cooking to finish in the mid 30’s
Yeah going faster than 2:20 feels like a real barrier. Amazing that winner Nick must have been averaging ~2:00 if I get the that right? (35min over 17km)
Where’s that image from? James Casey has said he’s had the speeds in 1:40’s I know, but can’t remember offhand what it was exactly. He’s faster than Ku though.