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Nice down style trim ‘a la’ Bundock-Ashby
The Wildcat sits on her tale at good downwind speeds and start ‘planing’ , check other Wildcat pics at the blog for a similar stance
| Vittorio Bissario and Cesari Lamberto, Italian F18 Champions 2009 I couldn´t find more pics on the official campionship website, so here you have some really good pics from them and the Hobie Wildcat flying |
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16
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Hey, in video at 1:04 we can see a
Tiger vs WildCat. Note: the WCat apparently planing!
They are reaching and getting together on the two boats it seems, and out of trim, but the Wildcat has a different stance for sure in those video frames.
At the Italian pic, the boat and crew are fully trimed and the boat is flying downwind.