It is essential to work them up gradually to build in reliability and learn how to best operate them. Pedote explains that he has the same foils as V and B β Monbana -Mayenne and Guyot Environnment β Water Family and the operating system is the same too. He has phased his updates over two years, last year fitting a new rounded bow and adding more strength and structure. I will fly sooner and in the lighter conditions it will make a difference.
Though the boat is now a little heavier. His immediate programme, like that of Pip and Kojiro, is about ramping things up steadily. This season is less focused on finding speed as it is on running the boat effectively and safely : Β« These first sails will be all about checking and learning the mechanical parts. It is so important to check and learn the reliability of these systems, once that is done we will focus on the performance.
Right now it is all about the best conditions between the foil and the bearing, to have one system which is very good. And always you are remembering that to finish well in the race you have to finish. I feel so unbelievably privileged to be doing this with this boat.
I am so proud of our team and what we have all achieved. It is almost still an all-British team but we now have a lovely French guy nowβ¦. He has helped immensely having a native French speaker for communication with the designers and suppliers. This past week she and a small delivery crew sailed the boat from Hythe, by Southampton, back to Poole where Medallia is based.
We were straight up to 29kts and then backed off. The noises are different, the boat felt superlight. I guess we just need to readjust and think about everything now in a different way. The potential I can see is absolutely enormous, it is so exciting, so brilliant, I am so, so happy. What we need learn is monumental and so I want to learn with now is very important and so I am thinking about that very closely.
