"Working on a pilot means translating what the helmsman does intellectually when he's steering on autopilot. We managed to do that very quickly. In just a few meetings with Pixel sur Mer, they came up with something and I think we gained just as much as changing foils. In other words, it's not the same price.
We realised in the final training sessions this year against some of the competitors that when everyone's at the helm, the boats are pretty close. But we've done some tests, and when we both put the pilot on, one of them starts to lose 2-3 knots in relation to the other. It's not a small knot (...)".
Extract from the Tips&Shaft podcast
Into The Wind from 13 January 2023
