When I say high winds that I mean is 15 gusting 18 knots, hardly gale force but I was massively overpowered in a couple of instances. I went down to the lake as I had a couple of cancelled lessons at collage which meant I was home by 11:30! Sometimes you have to love the X3.
Basically I learnt an incredible amount about the boat and my skills in it, for example I was trying to reach flat hiked, thus was over sheeting the main, reducing my boat speed. Also I learnt that I need to be more aggressive and rapid in getting back to hiking whilst tacking and gybing, as I was loosing boat speed and dipping a wing on a few occasions.
On to the more interesting stuff. THE BOAT IS SO RAPID! Flat lake, broad reach, 15 knots = one happy sailor. I am so amazed at the pace of the boat off the wind, I only wish that I sailed more regularly somewhere larger. The lake is just to small when you can reach all the way across in about a minute. But I love the boat so much!
I got some GOPRO camera footage of me sailing the boat (badly) which I'll upload to youtube and link on here.
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