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Posts: 954 Mumbles Y.C Wales U.K | Whilst on the MYC website it is worth looking through the Annotation gallery as you might find some of them amusing. MP*MULTIHULLS | | | Re: My 2007 Global Challenge photos
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Posts: 548 MERRITTISLAND, FL | Great photo's, thanks for sharing Mark. This one is featured twice. You must be very proud to be seen carrying water!!! I thought it was my eyes. That was kind of the way I was seeing about then, nice to know it was not me, it really was that way. Great shots M | | | Re: My 2007 Global Challenge photos
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Posts: 954 Mumbles Y.C Wales U.K | Very observant Si....But what I found more interesting was the difference in F16 mainsail shapes and in particular the differing mainsail foot lengths of the Blades. Hans mainsail foot was well within the rear beam compared to Matts and Franks. MP*MULTIHULLS | | | Re: My 2007 Global Challenge photos
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Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe | That is because Hans is using a circular traveller setup for his mainsheet, an A-cat setup. The others aren't.
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Posts: 322 South Australia | Actually Wouter that answer can only account for about 75mm of difference. FYI....i tried Han's sail (original Landy sail) on my boat & the foot was too long. I was going to try it for the Nam Rem race, but the mainsheet angle was huge.
The difference was the positioning of the beams on various boats....some were closer together & others further apart. I will let you speculate on what was which..??? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
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Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe Wouter
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Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe | The difference was the positioning of the beams on various boats....
Yep, that is right ! That is part of the equation too. Althought the only blade with a different spacing between the beams was your boat. All other Blades were of VWM and share identical beam positions. The fact that even between VWM Blade the mainsail by Hans was well in of the rearbeam is due to his circular traveller setup. With respect to speculation. The situation is simple : Stealths have the most distance between their beams VWM Blades have roughly the same distance as the Taipans. Aussie Blade has the smallest distance between the beams of all. Wouter
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Posts: 902 Norman,OK | The stealth has alot of rocker!
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#116336 09/08/07 05:51 PM 09/08/07 05:51 PM |
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Posts: 954 Mumbles Y.C Wales U.K | The Stealth does have a lot of rocker and a very flat bottomed hull design. I imagine that this form helps produce lift whilst also increasing the ability to go through tacks and gybes quickly. This coupled with the 'T' foils certainly helps drive the boat hard downwind, or as was the case at Zandvoort feel comparatively safe whilst going downwind. John and Paul Alani were twin wiring with kite on the runs with their Stealth at Zandvoort whilst Hans only occasionally hoisted his kite and therefore the curved traveller paid dividends. It is also worth while mentioning that Hans has only been sailing a F16 for 3 months previous to this he has been a very keen 'A' Class sailor. So even in his own words he is still learning to sail with a kite. P.S Matt and Bart won every race in which they didn't go swimming. MP*MULTIHULLS | | |
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