a folding wing setup in carbon would give a considerable advantage over boats without wings.
total weight of each wing (with effective beam increase of 1.5m) would only be 2.5kg including mountings..
so you would get a massive righting moment gain for very little weight cost. Its another F16 rule that I struggle to see the benefit to the class.
Andrew, As john says; the boat must still be 8 foot 2 wide so with wings you will get LESS RM.
Why?
Well; with wings where is the mast in terms of distance from the pivot point(leeward hull) ?
without wings; the mast is 1/2 boat width from the pivor point.
With wings the mast is less than 1/2 of the effective boat width as the wing IS part of beam.
So the mass of the mast is closer to the pivot point and contributes less to the RM.
Adding wings on a fixed beam platform REDUCES RM.
