Smaller, Lighter Singlehanders and Folding!

Hi Everybody,

A-Cat addresses crew problem and boat weight for easy manipulation, but the price is STORAGE ISSUE.
As long as you cannot keep your A-Cat at home, with the carbon mast in a safe place, these kind of boat becomes a problem.
Except 2 clubs in the country, sailing club's managers are not very happy to see A-Cat on the parking.
The reason is obvious, each time you have a big wind conditions, there is always an old laser or similar which
flies across the parking and crashes on your carbon toy.
It triggers many problem between the owner, the club and insurances, that is why A-Cats are usually not welcome.

The solution would be a quick folding boat&mast, stored in a box on the trailer.

For the rig, Ben Hall has provided a very interesting solution considering storage problem. a folding wing has no compression above the hound, so folding does not create any problem, Instead a 2 parts wingmast will be far less optimum than a classic one part model.

It will be probably the same problem for the new 16's with kite and carbon mast.

If in addition we could get a boat with carbon cross-beams plugged into a conical housing (no bolts nor nuts)very easy to put apart, we would get a solution, unfortunatly, not the cheaper one.

As a result, the whole boat could be stored in a big box on the trailer and remained imune of most casualties.

Sorry , my English is far from perfect, I still hope it is understandable.

Good wind to everybody

EK