The Taipan has a rather large overlap between jib and mainsail. This is also part of the reason why the jib blocks are so far back in the trampoline.

Actually the Standard 4.9 jib size is 4.17 sq. mtr. with a 4.72 mtr luff length. My selftacking jib setup has a jib that is 3.45 sq.mtr. and has a luff length of 5.48 mtr. The leech length is 5.3 mtr. It could be a little bigger still but not beyond 3.5 sq. mtr. The Taipan mast to forestay triangle is not large enough to take more jib area. However, 3.5 sq.mtr with a 5.48 mtr luff is just dandy. Works well and I don't feel slow because of it at all.






That is because the I-20's and such have never sheeted the jibs from anywhere else then the forebeam. The Taipan however sheets it off the trampoline as most late 80's and early 90's designs.





Part of it, indeed, but not all of it.

Pretty much main + jib area Taipan = 14.6 + 4.17 = 18.77 sq.mtr.
main + job area F16 = 15 + 3.7 = 18.70 sq. mtr.

So the F16's have actually a little less sailarea than the standard Taipans. However the area is much better applied. For a boat that is sailed with a spinnaker that is.




Ohhh plenty , want them all ?






You should, alu rings are seriously better than glass ones.

Wouter