There is a lot of talk about facks at the moment. So far all the evidence to date has been of touch and go tacks where the boat does touch ever so slightly before lifting off again. A great example of this can be seem in the videos of Rohan and Bora.

Rohan even states the following in the Bladerider high performance guide “It seems that only a few have claimed to have done an airborne tack, but rarely (ie ever) are they ever witnessed by anyone”. On Sailing Anarcy they simply say “Pictures or it didn’t happen”. Well you are going to have pictures then Thierry Martinez is the guy to take them.

In the sequence you can see that Simon Payne has clearly tacked and is nowhere near the surface of the water in his latest blog entry.

So now that the grail has been found, we don’t have to worry about the Knights who say Ni.