| Re: How gybing dagger boards work
[Re: Dan_Delave]
#66354 02/12/06 07:39 AM 02/12/06 07:39 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe Wouter
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Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe | I think a few F18's before the Infusion have tried the gybing boards already. Mystere Twister is one that comes to mind and Mattia F18 as well. Although I'm not too sure about the last. For some reason it has not gotten of the ground in the F18 class. Of course in the monohull world it is a relatively accepted feature, but then they have only one board !It will be interesting to see if this feature will remain part of the Infusion design or go to way of the earlier tries.
I put this post down as some background historical info.
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| | | Re: How gybing dagger boards work
[Re: pitchpoledave]
#66355 02/12/06 10:02 PM 02/12/06 10:02 PM |
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,307 Asuncion, Paraguay Luiz
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Posts: 1,307 Asuncion, Paraguay | The following explanation and pictures were taken from here - scroll for "Gybing heads". Gybing Heads Some boats use what is known as a "gybing head" design. If you look at the following picture, you can see that the head is trapezoidal in cross section, rather than the more typical rectangular. What this does is allow the centerboard to pivot inside the centerboard trunk (rotating about the point of maximum thickness of the head). The forces causing the board to pivot are (1) the lift being generated by the foil, and (2) the lateral resistance from the foil preventing the boat from slipping sideways through the water. Usually you can view the lift vector as being concentrated at the 25 % chord, while the lateral resistance is more or less evenly distributed across the foil. If the pivot point is greater than 50% back from the leading edge of the foil, then the forces will cause the centerboard to be pressed against the side of the trunk, and it is "gybed" into position. Typical centerboard gybing angles are about 3 degrees. The centerboard only gybes when it is all the way down - as soon as you start to rake it back in the trunk, the fat leading edge of the foil will jam enter the trunk and cause the centerboard to jam in a straight fore-aft position. Why do you want a gybing centerboard? By the board rotating to windward, you increase the angle of attack of the centerboard with respect to the centerline of the hull, and therefore generate more lift, all else being equal. In practice this means you can steer the boat slightly lower and sail with a fuller jib for increased power while maintaining the same leeway angle as a similar boat with a non-gybing board. That's the theory - some fleets like them, some don't (and many one-design classes don't allow them). Frank Bethwaite in "High Performance Sailing" claims they are a bad idea as the rudder may end up directly in the disrupted flow from the centerboard. Click here for a short overview of the fabrication process.
Luiz
| | | Re: Infusion - jybing dagger boards?
[Re: pitchpoledave]
#66356 02/12/06 11:09 PM 02/12/06 11:09 PM |
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 196 Arkansas, USA CaptainKirt
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Posts: 196 Arkansas, USA | A single gybing daggerboard may make sense in a mono but why not just use asymmetric boards to generate more lift on a catamaran ala the big twin daggerboard monos/cats/tris? You could conceivably have the bottom half of the board symmetric so if you left it down while going downwind it wouldn't "hurt" you-
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