Not for faint hearts...

Within three minutes of leaving the beach on Sydney Harbour in a 14-knot noreaster, bearing away around Middle Head as we hoisted the kite and both stepped out on to the trapeze, I knew that this was the best thing that could have happened to the Tornado in particular, and to multihull sailing as a whole.

So what happens when you take the already fastest Olympic Class and you add a square metre here and 25 square metres there. It is fun, scary fun! 

Colour, Speed, Adrenaline, Excitement and Carnage. The new Tornado is here.
So how did the change come about?

For the remainder of this article see the June 2001 edition of Seahorse. 

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