Its overly complicated in my opinion.
A modern catamaran rig, which rotates, has a wingmast shape, a powerful downhaul, and a square head sail and you have lots ways to adjust your rig the wind conditions. I am surprised the skiff/dinghy world doesnt embrace it.
Maybe a dinghy sailor can help us with the current thinking on dinghy masts.
A comp tip has no redeeming sailing qualities.
Bill
Complicated, but seems as though all the "latest" designs, 49'er, 59'er, Vector, etc. are using it also.
They have powerful downhauls, without the rotation feature, and like you I'm suprised. Why not? (I probably shouldn't ask this here, in this thread, but what is the origin of the rotating mast) What is the current dinghy thinking?
Being a Hobie owner (one w/o comp-tip) I'm not going there....again.
