And you are implicetly saying that the other designers don't design boats to be sailed with waves?
I am saying that designers tend to round the foredeck as the waves and speed increase. The eliptical hulls are a bonus when sailing off the beach. The SC17 was designed to be a beach cat and it is a very good engineering solution for its design purpose.
>>LS-High volume wingmasts may be older but Bill's idea was to SEAL them so that they can float. I think he was first in this.
This seems like a very unprovable claim to me ; but if you have proof of this that do share it with us. I have a hard time believing that each cat before the SC-product line was doomed to be resued by a crane platform after each capsize.
I don't recall ANY boat - not only multihulls - with sealed masts before the Supercats, but naturally I don't know enough to prove it. Maybe someone else could help us clarify this.
Maybe the curved track was introduced by the America's Cup 12 meters (for the vang) or Star. I also recall seeing tracks curved in the other direction (up and down instead of fore and aft) in small monohulls a long time ago, but I think curved tracks may be older then me.
Cheers,
Luiz
