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He has also forwarded the following observations of the boats performance by Laurent Leanne the CEO of the Great Cup series.
Dubai - GC32
Launch Day
You can feel
as prepared humanly possible, but launching a new boat is never an easy job,
but finally we made it!
After 11
months of hard work with a fantastic design, engineering and build team, the
GC32 sailed its first miles on the warm waters of Dubai.
Surrounded
by super sailors F18 World Champion Thijs Visser, F18 vice World Champion Karel
Begemann, F18 legend Bastian Tentij, Olympic Sailor/Coach & X40 Sailor Hugh
Styles, Moth World Champion Josh McKnight, F18 Sailors Olivier Witteveen, Tim
Shuwalow & Jason Waterhouse, we worked hard days and nights at the Dubai
International Marina in front of the amazing landscape assembling, splicing
ropes, and generally playing boats and winding the structure up to load test
everything.
Right from
the first day sailing, the GC32 demonstrated its personality, with a very stiff
platform giving amazing acceleration. We were all astonished at how quick the
boat was out of the box. Many of the complex areas such as foil control systems
worked perfectly well from day 1 and the boat has already demonstrated that it
will be a great class racing boat that rewards tidy crew work and focused
helming. She is so quick, safe with great sailing behavior remaining well on
top of the water with bear aways easily accomplished. The double S foils and L
Rudders give an amazing new turbo button adding more righting moment (horse
power) or more lift.
The boat has
excelled our expectations. With only a few optimizations needed to make the
boat perfect. We discussed those changes with our build partners and we should
be back on the water within 3 weeks for the final signoff for this new one
design class.
It has been
an honor to work with such a team. I would like to thank the entire sailing
team for their dedication to make this happen. The whole team at Premier
Composites that have been supporting us in many many ways during the entire
launch. We could have not made it happen without them. Southern Spars, North
Sails, Heol composites and OnDeck have all gone the extra mile as well in order
to ensure the success of this exciting new class.
Lastly I
want to thank Andrew Macpherson, he has been coordinating all the operations to
deliver the boat on the water. Well done!
Laurent Lenne CEO The Great Cup
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