Messing about in a boat

Today we blew the cobwebs off of last years boat. We took it out for a spin for a photographer (these are not his pictures!).

We took the opportunity to do some real world testing whilst on the water and set up a differential GPS system to collect centimetre accurate position and speed data. We tested the boat with and without an interceptor - a device to control the trim that we are planning to implement on the new boat. It was surprisingly effective. With the interceptor, the boat rode very flat with little wake. We are still analysing the GPS data to work out exactly how much difference it made in the real world, but here are some photos of the day!