well... yanno..
Uffa Fox was as instrumental as Bethwaite Snr, Charles Sparrow, John Spenser, Ben Lexcen and Richard Court in the development of high speed sailing. Debate all you want but I am confident the marine architects will back my statement.

Uffa if I recall basically made the International Canoe class the speed machine it is.. He was the father of the modern planing dinghy with his International 14 "Avenger". Her record stands today winning almost all the races in the first year she entered. Only Darkie is in her class as a 14teen legend. He was involved in developing the trapeze..

Maybe if land yachts used a trapeze they wouldn't need the sand ballast.

Im not an engineer.. I only vaguely recall my sckoolin but isnt there a formula that equates force is equal to mass times acceleration? So for a given force the greater the mass the less the acceleration..
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