Forum: Ask Our Team
23rd December 2010, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 454
Twin fins help early planning?
I was wandering if placing fins just below the rails would help to keep the flow under the board, not leting it escape to sides. Because all the flow which escape to sides don't contribute to lift...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
12th May 2009, 11:53 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,456
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Forum: Free Forum
12th May 2009, 11:39 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,140
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Forum: Free Forum
21st April 2009, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 5,165
Hello,
I would like to tell you some of the...
Hello,
I would like to tell you some of the theoric characteristhics of profiles:
1-Concave profile: This is the common one of sails, the single skin profile. Is the one which gets the biggest...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
9th February 2009, 02:31 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,419
Hello, as i said, i have phantom 380 from 2008....
Hello, as i said, i have phantom 380 from 2008. I'm almost sure is a problem of the rubbers, not the box itself. Maybe is because the gasket was tested in Thailand, where the water i guess is arround...
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Forum: Spanish Forum
30th January 2009, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,800
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Forum: Ask Our Team
29th January 2009, 06:00 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,419
Hello,
I'm not from the team, but i'm here...
Hello,
I'm not from the team, but i'm here already 2 months and the team seem to be disapeared so i'm going to try to help you. I have phantom race 380 from 2008. My daggerboard is also very hard to...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
22nd January 2009, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 859
Where is the team?
Hi!
I'm writing in this forum since begining of december but during all this time I didn't see any post from Ian Fox, Tiesda You and Remi (who just wrote today). Well, I said only these people...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
12th January 2009, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,881
Floyd,
everything i wrote was to say that you...
Floyd,
everything i wrote was to say that you reduce drag with cutouts because you reduce wetted area. Other boats don't use cutouts because they just don't have more wetted surface than needed. For...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
9th January 2009, 11:39 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,881
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Forum: Ask Our Team
9th January 2009, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,881
To say that a wing and a planing surface work...
To say that a wing and a planing surface work with different principles depends only on how do you call things. If you say that the board works because of momentum exchange of the water and the wing...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
9th January 2009, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,881
Hello everybody,
I read someone here saying...
Hello everybody,
I read someone here saying that the planing surface of the board is not working like a lifting shape (wing for example). I would like to find some similar things between the two...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
18th December 2008, 04:03 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
I'm sorry, I'm spanish and i didn't understand...
I'm sorry, I'm spanish and i didn't understand last two comments. What is Weedfin? And when floyd said "fitting of tiny fins(Arranged horizontally) (2cm length 1cm depth at most)" do you mean to put...
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Forum: Windsurfing School
16th December 2008, 01:54 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 8,070
Roger,
I thought more about this question....
Roger,
I thought more about this question. Well, first of all i wanted to tell you that when i said that i think is the wind which is lifting the board i was meaning the action of the wind directly...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
12th December 2008, 08:43 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
Now i don't have time to read. I'm at work. I...
Now i don't have time to read. I'm at work. I just wanted to ad that foils work at 4-8degrees of atack angle. So with only few change on the board pitch you would put the foil to angle 0 of atack (or...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
12th December 2008, 06:47 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
Do you know how does Trifoiler works?
It's...
Do you know how does Trifoiler works?
It's almost the same.
Front two foils controlled by respective skimmers, are keeping constant height in the front (this would be replaced by the front foil of...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
12th December 2008, 04:30 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
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Forum: Free Forum
12th December 2008, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,323
Greg, I agree with anything you said. It was...
Greg, I agree with anything you said. It was great!
I never realised that. The problem is comming from magazines and videos from Hawaii. They showed us that there is only one way. The planning way....
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Forum: Ask Our Team
12th December 2008, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
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Forum: Windsurfing School
11th December 2008, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 8,070
Roger,
but i think, when you roll the board,...
Roger,
but i think, when you roll the board, the hull is not producing lift properly, even more, being rolled he is trying to turn downwind, so we have to put the sail more to the back to compensate...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
11th December 2008, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
The problem is that power to leeward from the...
The problem is that power to leeward from the sail is also increased to square of the speed. I tryed to calculate once if it's true that you can reduce the size of the fin if you increase your speed...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
11th December 2008, 03:41 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
I think hydropter don't have any kind of height...
I think hydropter don't have any kind of height control. It uses the piercing foils which work for lift and daggerboard at the same time. This ones are autoregulating (when the speed grows the foil...
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Forum: Free Forum
10th December 2008, 06:33 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 10,944
Hi,
there are two radical different concepts...
Hi,
there are two radical different concepts mixed here. The twist in the upper part of the sail has a bigger purpose than that one of giving control in gusts. That part of the sail work like the...
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Forum: Free Forum
10th December 2008, 05:35 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,926
I see i didn't explain it well enough. I mean...
I see i didn't explain it well enough. I mean that:
-In low winds (so low that is not possible to take off in hydrofoils and neigther planning in planning boards), hydrofoiled serenity would be...
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Forum: Ask Our Team
10th December 2008, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,932
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