I'm curious. How significant is the aerodynamic drag(and possibly hydrodynamic drag in chop) from the mid-pole snuffer when an F16 is going upwind? It seems that racing this boat in light air solo against sloop rigged non-spin boats might be a disadvantage.
C'mon guys - 6lbs of additional weight?
Not that I am disagreeing about there being some VERY minor efect from windage, but most of it has to come from your head if is is noticable.
The hoop and sock on these boats is in line with the water and moved down to be close in plane with the tramp and beams. Those would be hard to remove from a boat and provide aerodynamic drag anyway. Most drag effects, like this do not become mathmaticaly significant untill the wind is high. And the advantages of the spin off the wind are undeniably significant.
The general concensus seems to be that additional volume and freeboard are good things, but both of these have a pretty significant negative effect on the windage drag also. In a solo application with light air and flat water, the current F16 designs are far from being optimal, as they have to be able to do 2-up and rough conditions equally.
