Defi Wind 2024 - training with a local expert

A tribute to my friend Dominique Montaggioni that helped me on getting more speed from my gear with 40 knots of wind. Dominique trained 1 hour during the morning, so he was already at full speed when we started training on the afternoon, This allowed me to test new solutions to improve my speed on Gruissan specific conditions. Thanks Dominique!

[@rickydlayaute5387]

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[@fonsvandenhove]

Hi Rui, I have two questions. One, your front hand looks to be very much to the front of the boom, is that because of trying to go upwind or being overpowered? Two, there are a lot of small horizontal wrinkles just behind the pocket of the sail; any idea why? Is this a downhaul issue or is the sail simply cut like that? Beautiful footage nonetheless :)

[@POR11RS]

Hi Fons! Front hand positioning is due to 2 things - being slightly overpowered (looking for a safer position than looking for pure speed) and it was the 1st run of the day - I was still feeling unbalanced with the trim of the board and sail (later I was feeling confidence to put the hand a little backwards).
About the horizontal wrinkles - they are normal on modern cambered race sails with a large luff pocket. They have a huge tension on the sail (inside the luff pocket) and low tension on the luff pocket (that works partially independent of the sail). In the old cambered race sails the downhaul tension was applied to the luff pocket and that was not good (the luff pocket was very stretched and the sail inside the luff pocket was loose)....
Thanks for your words on the footage - I was using a 5.3K definition to get a high video quality 😀
See you!