Sport Boat, Overnight Race, Freezing Conditions - What Could Go Wrong?!?!?

When you start your day scraping windows, and your plan is to do a 125km overnight race in a planing sport boat, you know there is going to be a story to tell and lessons to learn.

In this video we sail a Cheetah 30 sport boat, designed by Bob Amos and built by Corsair Marine, in the 68 nautical mile or 125km Blackline Patos Island Race.

We encounter everything from ghosting conditions, to upwind bashing, to a glorious spinnaker run.

Some boats reported frost on their decks at night, but we avoided that by thoroughly dousing the entire boat in seawater at several times during the race.

Bluetti kindly provided their new 400Wh AC60 for us to review in this video, but unfortunately the B80 expansion pack that would have provided another 800 Wh didn't arrive until after the race:

https://www.bluettipower.ca/pages/ac6...

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