typos are a fact of life with keyboards and most any english speaker can read through them, but number typos are very hard for noob's
"The boat sailed faster than my Nacra 12sq....
The TS was designed on the Paper Tiger basic platform and stretched to be a 30 foot twin trap rig."
I took the second number there as a reference to the mast length, although my recollection (can't say I ever actually measured mine) is that the TS mast was 28'. Still, in the ballpark of what warbird quotes.
Yes, the second number was mast length and the boats are 18'. My first TS was 28 feet but this was is 9.2. The rig seems to have been made bigger as several I have heard of have the bigger rig. Some money had been spent on the up-date.
Mine came with two sails, the larger and the smaller. The mast had a section added to the top and was sleeved.
I cut the small sail down to square top and less foot and raked the mast and shortened a spare mast I had.
The boat seems to sail very well. Is well faster than my friends Hydra even with the cut down and rake.
I am pleased enough to have ordered two new sails from Whirlwind with a roller furler jib off a foil and sheeting back to the beam instead of the tramp.
Yes, Nacra 14 sq
But 30 foot is real.
The nacra is well over engineered and short in the bow. Far heavier to move around the beach but I do not know how heavy. Not as heavy as a Hydra.
But the 14sq was a great boat out at sea and very right-able and trustworthy in what is often an area where you have to look after yourself out there.
Yes, the Tiger Shark does have much bigger beams but it is just stretched as the freeboard is no great amount bigger. The hulls are well wider though. Also, it has been engineered for two big Kiwi lads and 30 knot winds so I do not expect it to fall apart.
No, they are the original TS rudders which seemed to end up pretty well generic.
Note the dagger boards which are cut away and very comfortable around the deck.
I will take Chips advice on the lower batten but I do like the lower batten on the Hydra as it makes shaping down wind a dream.
The three yokes on the boom are for separate pulleys.
Yes, I think it is all about actual results and not so much theory. But I have to get my act together in a sequence that does not leave me broken, wet and by myself.
Soon I will care about nothing but GPS and speed results.
Because that is all I actually care about. some speed in my life.
photo shows the boat to be stretched rather than simply bloated if you check against a PT.
The mast is now raked a little further and that is a fully battened Buffalo sail I thought I would try
