I always envisioned it as a design tha would be almost perfect for the watertribe race. As Luiz will attest, I included a foot peddle option in the design similar to the Hobie miracle drive. Basically, I planned to have T-foil rudders on the boat that could double as a poor mans miracle drive. As such you would have spares on the board while doing to trek. I was even thinking of using the same profile for the daggers to cut down on cost and to again to have a spare for everything.

For reefing I choose to use a slip knot at the top hook with a release line running through the sleeve. That is a one way ticket I know, but you typically want to reef in sudden bad conditions where you can't justify complex manouvres, however when undoing the reef the conditions are back at being much calmer and then one can easily justify more complex manouvres. Tipping the boat and swimming towards the mast to encage the slipknot is a real possibility. Of course, dropping the mast is also possible with only 7.00 sq mtr. Sail on a rig that only weights 12 kg in total.


Mind you, I still want a boat like you describe myself. One tha is car toppable and with a truly shallow draft but still fun to sail. The F12 I was working on had all these traits I think and was also a promising youth boat. That was at the core of my concept. A design that was attractive to wide range of sailors, not only youths, altbeit for different uses. As such I hoped to emtlarge to commercial attractiveness of the design and class.

I'm still eyeballing doing a trek alomg the Dutch sand island (wadden) of which Texel is one. And trekking the finnish archipelago. I won't do those on my F16. Basically, if I habe to abandon ship I don't want to be in for 15 grand. 3 grand is a sum I can walk away from withou feeling too bad.


Over the years I haven't been able to shake this idea and I still want to do it. Putting such a boat into existance I mean.