Good comments. I agree with the weather helm thing. All the Nacra Uni's seem to have weather helm even after tuning. I was thinking of also adding the F 17 steering system, including the cross bar and the rubber attachments to the rudder arms. The F 17 rudders are currently class legal on a Uni, we voted that in several years ago. I didn't want to add them to my boat then because when I had a F 17 I had a tendency to stall a lot on the starting line and it is difficult to get out of irons because of the shape of the blades. But, the F 17 tracks straight as an arrow when ya let go of the tiller..really sweet system. I have been told to rake the rudders forward under the boat and possibly put washers on the top of the rudder attachments to help this out due to the differences
in the angle of the transom between a Uni and a F 17. I was also thinking of putting the F 18 pole on the boat. With the rule changes coming in the NA F 18 class there may be some used poles available at a good price. I have seen Fritz's shute and its huge. I really think the smaller F 17 shute will be ok. Heck, with some big folks up here moving to big boy shutes if they can once again there may be good used shutes available. As for set up, its still fun to watch sometimes how many times the mast has to be raised before all the rigging is right. I remember Fritz once asked how many times it takes raising the mast before we got it right. I had to re step more than once way too many times. I was always getting the halyard screwed up. Since then I see some of the guys are getting better using the extended tiller stick to get the halyard through the spreaders properly. As to the weight of a F 17, I saw Mark Bachelors boat weighed at Spring fever last spring and it was 350 all up. My current Uni weighed in at 322, so with the proposed changes to add the shute I think I'll be looking at 340 all up. I really like the platform, hope it works out, if not at least it would be good for day sailing or long distance stuff. Once again...Rush, what do you think?
