Sadly I haven't got all parts in one place so I never measured the whole platform ready to sail. I haven't sailed my own F16 yet due to employment related problems but here are the measurement that I do have.
AHPC makes the hulls as 23,5 kg each mine are heavier about 25,0 kg due to he use of heavier foam (closed cel) and the raising of the mainbeam by stuffing the underside with filler and epoxy.
My rearbeam is no more than 5,0 kg fully fitted (track, car, bolts, spacers, the lot)
My mainbeam is no more than 7,0 kg fully fitted (bolts, maststep, pin, strikerstrap, end castings, etc)
Standard Taipan beams (together) fully fitted were measured at 12 kg by a friend last year.
My trampoline weights next to nothing and is significantly lighter then my P16 tramp. I haven't weigthed yet but I'll be very surprised if it comes out at more than 1.5 kg.
Therefor the platform in total weights : 63,5 kg = 140 lbs. AHPC makes them at 60,5 kg = 134 lbs
Mast section alone weights 13,5 kg = 30 lbs and fully rigged weights 15,5 kg = 34 lbs
The Carbon rudder blades, carbon rudderstocks, Carbon/glass laminate tiller bar and carbon/glass laminate tiller extension (joystick) weight in at just less than 5 kg's on my scales; lets say 5 kg to be save. Ohh, this includes the covers which proptect the rudders from damage. These are pretty light only some 300 gram in total I think so we just tuck them in with the rest. 5 Kg = 11 lbs.
My mainsail including battens and it cover (a lightweight back only a few hunderd grams extra) weights 7 kg's. It is pentex of 14,85 sq.mtr. which is exactly the same size as the Texel measurement of the FX-one. My boom is 1.5 kg's and I don't know how much my main blocks and sheet are. I have a lightweight sheet that is tapered and medium sized blocks. Lets say that the blocks and sheet weight 1,5 kg in total ? Therfor my setup mainsail+blocks+battens+bag+sheet = 10 kg = 22 lbs. About the same as the FX-one which is what I would expect.
Daggerboards. I had trouble weighting them as they become very light. For this reason I can't get the Rudderblade weight individually, only the total weight of the whole setup. Anyways the boards including the protetion guard (again this doesn't weight that much only a few hundred grams) came out at just over 4 kg's lets say 4,5 to be save. 4.5 kg's = 10 lbs PER PAIR or 5 lbs per board+cover.
I can choose dyform rigging for my stays but I don't see the point. Dyform is more sensitive to abuse and the weight savings are pretty small. Also the smaller diameter dyform is a real b'stard when you hit them during a pitchpole. I rather have the 4 mm 1x19 wires that the FX-one uses as well. I haven't weight my setup but I don't expect it to be less in weight that those of the FX-one ; so 5 lbs it is.
F16 (Taipan based) 140 lbs Basic Platform (Hulls, Crossbar, Trampoline) FX-one = 198 lbs
F16 (Taipan based) 34 lbs Mast (With spreaders and main halyard) FX-one = 44 lbs
F16 (Taipan based) 11 lbs Steering System (Rudders, pins, slave bar, tiller ext)FX-one = 25 lbs
F16 (Taipan based) 22 lbs Mainsail (w/ battens, boom, mainsheet& block, cunningham) FX-one = 21 lbs
F16 (Taipan based) 10 lbs Dagger Boards FX-one = 20 lbs
F16 (Taipan based) 5 lbs Rigging (Sidestays, forestay, 1 trapeze set) FX-one = 5 lbs
Total FX-one 313 lbs ; adding all the parts of the my setup gives = 222 lbs = 100.5 kg = say 101 kg ex the spinnaker equipment and ex jib equipment. This is 4 kilograms overweight with respect to the AHPC Taipan 4.9 catrigged minimum. With the jib ( not furling = 2.5 kg = 7 lbs) and (manual) spi setups (spi = 5 kg = 11 lbs) onboard I come out at 240 lbs = 109 kg overall. To be save I again round off upwards and assume my platform to be 110 kg which is 3 kilogram (= 6 lbs) overweight with respect to the F16 minimum sloop rigged weight of 107 kg.
I broke even on the beams despite the fact they are longer than on the standard T4.9 and I won something on the lightweight rudder setup. A standard Taipan 4.9 sloop-rigged-no-spi-setup is delivered at 102 kg sharp; the proof is in the RC measurements of the boats at the 2001, 2002, 2003 Taipan nationals).
From the comparison we can see which the big winners are :
Hulls 58 lbs lighter = 100% - 140/198 = 30 % less
mast 10 lbs lighter = 23 % less
steering system 14 lbs lighter = 56 % less
Mainsail boom etc say 0 lbs = no difference
Daggerboards 10 lbs lighter = 50 % less
Platform total 58 lbs less ; mast steering etc total 34 lbs less
Total less 92 lbs or 42 kg = 222/313 (cat rigged versions) = 70,9 % = 71 % = 29 % less overall.
And my complete carbon rudder setup costed me 1250 Aus$ ex shipping ex tax = about 750 US$ (ex tax ex ship) for the whole lot so the guys telling everybody that carbon is expensive are being duped by their suppliers. Or at least the arms race that I'm involved in is saving me money. The boards ex tax ex shipping costed me about 300 US$.
All these measurements were taking using a bathroom scale. In case of the mainsail I stood on the scale and held the mainsail and its sack horizontally in my arms, later I subtracted the weight the scale gave when I only was on the scale . Same with the daggerboard although I was able to stack these with the ruddersetup as well. Both approached resulted in the same values.
I will now go to my local supermarket and lay the rudder boards on their digital vegtable scales. These are accurate to the gram.
Wouter
