We believe we can reach the 100 kgs weight for production stealths, the boat was originally designed with no particular weight target as such we compromised in a few areas, main beam, current weight 7.5 kgs! (no dolphin striker), rear beam current weight 4.5 kgs, these were cheap available sections at the time, we also put coremat (instead of foam) in the floor of the hull to make the boat tougher when mishandled, I think just changing these bits of the boat alone will probably get us to the weight we are looking for.
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<br>We seam to be moving towards agreement on most topics, to summarise it would appear that the framework will be something like this:
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<br>Max length 5.00 m
<br>Max beam 2.5 m
<br>Max mast length 9.00
<br>Min weight 100 kgs
<br>Max spin 17 m (18sq m???)
<br>Max draw height on kite ? 8.5 m ??
<br>Rated main area (as per Wouters calcs
<br>Rated jib area (see above)
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<br>Boats to rate the same as F18 (I think we need to pick a rating system to compare its a bit too open to make it compare on all systems, I vote we use texel this allows us 18sqm spin with no penalty over 17sq m it also allows any length of daggerboard whereas for ISAF you must put in the length and area for the boards.
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