In my opinion, these sails are great for showing off and reaching back and forth with a lot of excitement. On a distance race with mostly reaching, it will outsail its handicap.
Rick claims his "hooter" will sail as fast and point as high (which isn't very high BTW) as a Hobie 16.
I don't believe it, but we will do some one on one testing, perhaps next week.
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Rick and I at Put-In-Bay yesterday ready to go "mono on mono".
However, Rick is still in the developing stages of his new rig and had trouble getting enough luff tension on the hooter.
He needs to lower the pole and I think it will be fine.
Mine has a shorter luff so I can get it pretty tight. That is needed to get it to furl properly.
Someone asked if you can sail with it partly unfurled and the answer is NO...absolutely not. It is either all in or all out. That is because the top tends to roll out more material than the bottom which is restrained but the furler drum. Trust me, it doesn't work well partly unfurled.
After Rick came back in to reconsider his design, I went out in 8-12 knots and sailed for several hours.
It is really amazing the speed that develops on a beam to broad reach. The boat literally leaps out of the water and skips over the waves. Note that this is in the famous Lake Erie chop.
There is no hope to gain an advantage upwind compared to a uni-rig Wave, opinion.
