AHHH, but reread the following phrase again.

“PS. I put a SC20 together once that was 20ft wide and it sailed fine. To windward it was a rocket. Reaching don't trapeze. Downwind same as a normal SC20, watch the bows.”

Don't you notice that little "Reaching don't trapeze" thingy ?

Why is that bit included ? Why can't you trapeze on this course ?

And Steve; I wasn't saying that the total volume of the leeward hulls needs to increase; just that the longitudal pitching restance needs to be increased in order to make effective use of the extra width.

What have you won when you've replaced capsizing with pitchpoling ? Either way you can't transform the sailpower that you have into speed.

But by all means guys, if you believe that you can make boats indefinately faster by making them wider and that no other design aspect will limit you gains to something far less than expected then widen your boats.


Wouter