For all who want to know here is the info on the 6.0
That is fully rigged. The only changes that I have made to my boat is replacing all the nuts/bolts with titanium (aircraft) bolts. That took a few pounds and are alot stronger (did it before the last worrell I ran). Also, I baked the hulls when I got the boat to get the boat to fully cure. Each hull weighed about 5 lbs less after and according to a friend who builds racing airplanes make the structure stronger and less likely to draw water.
Other than that its stock. That weight was without the spinnaker setup and related spin gear
--- Carl, I agree with you totally, I am just showing that maybe we want to look at crew weight being the adjusting factor over boat weight. If I increased my boat weight to a minimum then I could reconfigure my sails to crew weight (as would other teams) and then we would have basically the same platforms (I said basically).
--- Marc, My ego is not driven by winning races. I enjoy sailing/racing and really don't give a hairy rat's A## where I finish as long as the field is semi level. I race in order to improve my sailing skills and to be outside out of the office, away from the phone. My job is stressful enough to freak out if I don't win doing my hobby. If I wanted a nervous breakdown I'd play golf !! One thing that I am tired of is basically this. I'm 190 lbs 6'3" have a 32 inch waist (so as you can see I'm not a fat body) and I still have to race against crew weights that are optimum for 16-18 foot boats. Hell, I could race those boats and be semi-competitive but, where in the hell is the boat/class configured for my weight group???? You know where it is???? Let's all toss out the Randy's and that class of sailor. Let's look at the rest of us hacks out here. How many of us weigh 150 lbs??? How many 170 lbs??? Crew minimum is two 160 lbs guys --- hell other than cat sailors I don't know any 30-40 year old 160 lbs guys. And out of the catsailors the only ones that I know a Randy class.
Back to Carl --- this is the reason Carl that the series is looking into 22 to 24 foot boats because the monohull guys won't come into a class for small people. We needed the big names to pull in the yacht clubs and the y.c's to pull in the sponsors so that's how the food chain grew.
Vladimir, I actually have weighed the trailer alone then weighed the boats individually. The best thing is my tow vehicle is a diesel so the weigh was free!! Got to love it.
Steve
