Originally Posted by davefarmer
pepin, what's a Stealth R?
As Simon said, that's the boat JP originally designed before the F16 rules. Actually there were 3 major versions, the original Stealth, the Stealth 'R' and the Stealth F16.

From memory, the original had the following characteristics:

- Smallish not square top main (Ullman)
- Small jib (Ullman)
- Spi (Ullman)
- Rudder and daggerboard where identical (in fact 49er rudder foils)
- 2.4m wide
- canoe bows

The 'R' had the following changes, using the exact same platform:

- Huge overlapping jib (Ullman)
- Longer daggerboard

A lot of original Stealth were upgraded to the 'R' version. Mine is one of those: I have two jibs and two sets of rudder foils.

The F16 version was then optimized for the F16 rules with some other changes thrown in for good measures:

- Larger beam (2.50)
- beefier front beam
- Straight bow
- All sails made by Landenberger, and more recently by Grant Piggot.
- F16 compliant main (square top, larger than the 'R')
- F16 compliant jib (smaller than the 'R') with an optional self-tacker
- Longer spi pole
- Anti-pitchpole rudder foils
- Thinner daggerboard
- Different trampoline lacing smile
- Mast rotation at mast base

A lot of upgrades have been applied to older Stealths, anything from canting the hulls, changing the sails to F16 sails, adding foils, widening beams, you name it...


Last edited by pepin; 04/21/09 05:35 AM.