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Friday, March 17, 2006

Olympic Class Sailing Dinghy

These types of sailing dinghies are insane. Here is one of the French dinghies practicing for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. They are probably moving in excess of 20 knots. The video shows them both upwind and downwind as well as gybing on a downwind course. Amazing to see these things fly out of the water...

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