Dustin writes:

The Canoa race is about as pure an idea of glide across the speed
range you will ever get. With the track logs available I'm not sure how much
more resolution of data you're after.

The RS was carrying slightly more ballast with a very slightly higher area for
almost identical wing loading.

It was a tighter race than I expected but there really was no chance for the RS
to win.

Could a new RX? I really don't know. Raul was racing his new RX at a higher wing
loading than either me or Tom and was minutes behind each day. His harness is a
matrix but he flies very slightly head up which doesn't help.

Day 1 was an all out effort with a huge gap over Tom, but he made some of the
crossings too low to be perfectly efficient.

Day 2 was probably most representative because he learned to do the crossings
higher and I was still putting out 95% effort regarding risk and crossing
height.

Day 3, besides the last leg where he shortcut a turnpoint was otherwise a great
representation of sink rate 70-90 kph since I put my nose basically even with
his while riding the lift band about ten meters higher. Probably a difference of
<5fpm over him but still significant enough to allow control of the race.

Obviously, on the last day of such a low altitude race, if you are leading by
such a big margin it would be insane to push in the front, especially with the
fickle conditions of day 3.

I'm more interested in how the tweaks to the glider, which were very minor,
could produce such visible advantages.

Rudy was quite close in his sort of new T2C and held a clear advantage over
Daniel in a slightly older model. It's obvious that each generation is making
steps in the right direction.