The Star Keel Shorties
Information reaches me of the Short Arse Club. Membership is open to crewmen in the Star keel boat class.
Bryn Vaile is a fully paid-up member. The 1988 gold medal winning crew to Mike McIntyre tells me that the optimum inner leg measurement for crew in the class is 27 inches.
Compelled to ask how Vaile knows such a thing, he cites detailed research. Seemingly he was on the scales at a championship crew weigh-in alongside (but not literally) the legendary American crew man Steve Erickson.
Known to all as Stevie Wonder, Erickson won the 1984 Gold crewing for Bill Buchan, and somehow he and the Welshmen discussed what was the common denominator in Gold medal winning crew. So the SAC had its roots.
Seemingly SAC members can hike the trunk of their bodies over the side of the Star’s low freeboard hull with their backsides just kissing the water.
A longer leg length results in greater immersion. Which is wet and slow. — Tim Jeffery, an excerpt from his latest blog posting at blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/timjeffery/
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