yiiiihaaa! we finally got our tandem! harald and i were looking for the good old F2 tandem (i guess it was from the mid 90ties) for quite some years now. this spring, we got word from a friend from Rhodos that he might sell his old station tandem to us. some weeks later, his new station manager visited our station at karpathos and brought the piece with him.
the mission was clear: from the beginning on we were always thinking of getting a 'pussy wagon' style board as a tribute to uma thurman in 'kill bill'. kuri bought us some yellow paint in pigadia and i brought some plotted stickers from home.
well, it was a matter of just ablout two hours to create a new legend! the board will be there for the (rare) case of low wind.
due to the heat, the paint was dry after only an hour or so and we could go and ride it! 5,7 and 6,1 were perfect sail sizes and after a few attempts we finally dialled our first ever fully planning jibe.
as we have the speed world cup here next week (and the greek nationals starting tomorrow), everybody is in a speed rush and so we took our GPS as we were wondering, how fast we could make the baby go... well, considering its length of more than 4 meters and its volume of 250 liters we didn't expect to get too fast, but we finally could reach 45 km/h (about 24 knots)... not too bad for lightwind conditions. :D
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