Thank you Wouter!
yes please send me the word file!
that is great news for allowing canted hulls
(although homebuilders would have it much easier if they would be allowed to glue them instead of screwing them. I just heard from an australian taipan sailor that the bolts on the standard taipans rear beam shear off quite often and the front beam quite often also get cracks... so maybe something to reconsider/discuss 2008).
by the way, the first Taipan F18 who dominated the Round Texel at his first introduction was significantly canted.
The problems with the heavy F18 however is that they spend a lot of time with both hulls in the water, a state you leave with a lightwind orientated design like the A-class much earlier... Sill I believe that the Aicher+Egner F18 is canted but I am not sure about the Capricorn? By the way, the Marstroem A-Cats are still uncanted and always also are close to the front in light winds, but anyhow difficult to compare as they are very different hulls with even a much more different mast and sail than the rest of the fleet...
Having sailed uncanted and canted hulls I believe as soon as you lift a hull the canted hull is just so much more fun to sail, specially with the flat planning hull shapes of nowadays designs.
what is actually happening with the bimare f16 whose mast/sail is based on current A-class designs? Will this boat also be 'grandfathered' for a while?
In principal although I do not like so much the low cost approach of bimare it seems that this boat with a modern design might be one of the cheapiest and lightest ways to make it into the 16foot world... but with a to tall mast and no jib (so actually much less sailarea, but very reasonable decisions seen with the ventilo 20, the bim 20, marstroems m20 or the f18ht before) this boat of one very experienced mass production builder choosed definitely a different way than the current class rules are about...?
for now on, who is building f16 cat rigged big square top mainsails to fit to the standard 4.9 taipan superwing mast?
- Ashby Sails (for sure)
- Godall (as seen with agent orange)
- Steven Brewin?
- Landenberger One design?
- others?
kind regards
Dirk
p.s. any solution to give the growing China fleet access to the F16 site?
