guys this is my story of sailing Lignano. The first time I got in the boat was about fifteen years ago. The hill was stellar in Lignano: all boats open faster Adriatic was based in Marina Punta Faro. The legendary Fanatic, winner of many Barcolana, was the dream of those years. We can mount over had a privileged few. Oh well, do not digress ...
Saturday evening during a delicious dinner at the ancient seat of YCL, good Gazza gave me a floppy disk, a 3.5 "floppy. Prehistory computer. Inside the disk there was the legendary Jofanaut navigation software. This software was then to a "light years ahead" and, in some ways, continues to be. Born from the mind and hands of the engineer Faraglia, programmed in BASIC and running in dos, via NMEA interfaces to all aircraft instrumentation and navigation instructions from race worthy of the very expensive software B & G: layline, historical wind vmg target on polar, etc. ... This software
me a little 'fuck. From the day the engineer Faraglia took me aside and explained how the program works, and I still think that sailing is not inspiration or talent. But geometry and vectors. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe not, the fact is that Aries III has now become a technological laboratory.
At the bottom just add a little note on the weekend just ended. Two days of bora of 20/25 knots. Giant waves. Boline demanding and stern plane continues gybed negative on the faces of the waves. Lignano has given me everything he could give me in recent months. Now begins the fall with an October full of local races. We hope to find no wind?
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