Mischa Heemskerk is tuning his special designed M20 cat on the beach just before the ROUND-TEXEL starts saturday.
Skip all the dutch talking. The cat is 4 meter beam, has each rudder doubled! (one for shallow water and one with wingtips for deep water). So you see them sailing with what looks small rudders up. The wingtips on the long rudderblades are flexible.
Finally the daggerboards can be controlled during sailing by a rope system.
Last edited by northsea junkie; 06/26/1410:49 AM.
ronald RAIDER-15 (homebuilt)
hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?.. "huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.
I saw it sailing yesterday and it did seem to fly quite well (he was way in the distance). Up close the boat looks very well thought out. Tomorrow the new foiling Nacra 20 and Phantom will also arrive at Texel so should be a good show. According to the forecast there will be around 15kts during the race which should be enough to keep them foiling.
Awesome! Foiling is definately happening, but I keep in mind Buckminster Fuller adage "evolution makes many false starts". This M20 on steroids definately looks awesome!
How many footstraps each side.
Re: race monster in Texel cat race
[Re: Rolf_Nilsen]
#273489 06/27/1403:03 AM06/27/1403:03 AM
Noticed that in another comment - perhaps on FB? Also noticed that the daggers seemed to be relatively unscathed. Close up inspection might be a different story (as well as the dagger trunks).
The foiling looks cools, but i'm wondering about the beach cat aspect. It doesn't look like you could actually run one of those right up on the beach if there was some surf. It looks like the boards are still partly below the bottom of the hull even when they are all the way up? Did anyone see them land in the small surf?
Re: race monster in Texel cat race
[Re: jollyrodgers]
#273565 06/30/1409:22 AM06/30/1409:22 AM
The foiling looks cools, but i'm wondering about the beach cat aspect. It doesn't look like you could actually run one of those right up on the beach if there was some surf. It looks like the boards are still partly below the bottom of the hull even when they are all the way up? Did anyone see them land in the small surf?
I think the boards are about 10-15cm below the hull, you shouldnt sail a cat straight onto the beach anyway unless you have to anyway. Thats what cattrax are for :-)