After a shipping nightmare ( 2 weeks stop over in London) my Holroyd rudder finally arrived. British Airways screwed up badly and Embassy freight promised me to never use them again.

My first thought when I got the package was that Holly must enjoy packing things up. The rudder was packaged very artistically like you can see here:

Like you can see the Holroyd rudder is actually one piece and it looks amazing. Devin already had a chance to sail with his as his was probably not delivered by BA. Here is what he thinks about it:
“6-8 knot of wind.  The rudder is amazing and so much stiffer the first jib I almost tossed myself off the boat. It takes about half the rudder movement.  I had a 18.3 ten second average and 19 knot top speed in maybe 8 knot of wind max.  It was light enough that I had trouble getting up on the foils, but was ripping once I was up. …  So I was ripping along at 18 knots with a 1 meter roster tail going behind the boat.  The rudder really is perfect.  Plus the work I did on the
main foil and control system, the  boat feels like a completely different boat. Looking forward to trying to tomorrow in some more breeze.  Nothing broke so I am really happy with how everything feels on the boat at the moment.”

I am packing up for Garda and cannot wait to try the new rudder there…

In addition to the new rudder something else happened: I picked up the new shirts I made to promote the Assassin and foilermoth.com. They were printed using screenprint and are really high quality. Here are a couple pictures of it:

Here you can see Cassian (our awesome designer who deserves all credit for studdex and foilermoth) trying on the first shirt:

If you want to have a shirt for yourself they cost € 25 (+ shipping when you don’t live in Germany). Just email me to felix@foilermoth.com

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