TietoEnator Trimaran sailing Sept. 2006

Approaching Kiel Holtenau on the way to a management-meeting which also includes a ride on a 60ft Trimaran in the Kieler Förde.

  
A look onto the bigger locks of Kiel-Canal, in Germany refered to as Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, or NOK.  
This was TietoEnator/Audi from the front. I think it looks a little bit like an insect !  

Hey, somebody should clean up the mess, before we go out later :-)

HERE IS A SHORT WMV VIDEO (6MB) of our ride

 
This is Thomas Johanson, one of the two skippers of this Trimaran explaining to us, why they like this boat:

 

"It is the fastest, meanest and most agressive boat for sailing. And the most fun !"

  
Here an AWESOME Video from Youtube about our TIETOENATOR ORMA60 Trimaran in action!    
Thomas explaining things to Markus, or maybe the other way round.

It was soooo amazing to be able to overtake big cargoships which were doing 17knots and other motor-yachts

  
These are only the sails for transfer-sailing from one port to the other.

The Main-sail weighs around 240kg but the competition mainsail only 80kg !

The competition sails are

 north sails 3DL types

  
Andreas filming. I think we deserved the great weather that day ! 24Celcius and Wind SE 3  
21,4knots was not bad for the beginning. To be honest, this kind of sailing redefines the word SPEED for sailing.

Later we had up to 25knots.

  

Check-out the swiveling mast-base. The mast can be tilted 11degress to enhance performance if the boat is tilted.

  
Frank taking it easy and enjoying the ride.  
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THIS is a winch ! Not the small "44"s on my boat !

  
Starbord foil just entering the water.  
This gives you an idea about hull and foil-size. Markus is not a small dude :-)  
Sonja is enjoying the sun and the sailing  
Carl Lindfors, the guy who made this livetime experience possible !  
The way down inside to the "biiiiig" livingroom.  
Navigators place  

The "pantry". To the right you can still see the navigators seat :-)

 

  
Looking backwards you can see the sleeping-room with two beds. the lower is just up. At the far end the rudder.  

Grinding the coffee

  
One of the Waldbrenner twins steering the beast.  
stern-section with radar, traveller, etc.  
Me, helping to furl in the jib.  
The next morning, when flying home my brother requested a scenic-circle over the Foerde and got permission for it. So while he was flying the plane i tried to get some pictures, which was not easy, because i only had my small digi-cam with me.  
TietoEnator from above  
another one  
Isn´t that beautiful ?  
Just missed it !

On Friday night they are going through Kiel-Canal to the north-sea and then to Southhampton, later to France and the the boat goes from St.Malo to Guadelopue SINGLE-HANDED !

  
The boat tacking. Check the narrow tack-angle for that speed !  
Last picture of a great day with great people on an even greater boat !  
  THATS IT !