That will be a tall order Andrew, Marstrom tried 108 kg and now the M20's are 120 kg.

Making a 20 foot and 10 foot wide boat weighting less then 120 kg and have it stand up to the full rigours of sailingis a pretty hard thing to do.

Would love to see you succeed however.

Wouter

Staight from the horses mouth..... I stand corrected.

Corgats on the Kings Cup

Steve,

Your suffering from the foot in mouth disease again....

Ha...Ha....

Had to get that one in.

Hey Marcus

You going to do bad things with the temporary toy <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Better beef up those trap wires mate...... Macca has them set up for lightweights <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I broke his CST tiller extension on my first outing on it.

Talking about the temporary toy.

What kind of boat was Macca sailing at the kings cup ?

Wouter

Congratulations! F18 or Tornado?

Thanks for info on origin of your mast!
I have e-mailed Scott Anderson, and he offers a carbon Taipan 5.7/Capricorn mast (up to 10 m) at a reasonable price (haven't checked shipping rates yet...).

Would you prefer the Taipan-profile mast to a Marstrom Tornado-profile mast?

Macca, With your experience with the Super Taipan, what do you think of my proposal for a new light-weight "F20"-class?

Stein

Stein,

allow 2foot wings on each side, and I am in.

A well made (ie stiff enough) wing mast like a capricorn is better then the T section.

As for adding wings, I think that with a low drag hull you wouldn't need the wings and in fact they would only add to the complexity and increase drag.

Kings Cup boat was a lot slower than any of my normal boats. But when you get paid to sail you dont get so much choice. The boat was a DK46, we sail one in Australia often so it was pretty easy to get on and make it go. Very close competition from 2 TP52's and Neil Prydes Modified farr 52.

Steve,

We ran the same kind of trap wires on the T before we sold it.......then again there has been plenty of shark sighting lately in Adelaide.....hmmm.

Tiller extension feels a bit heavy.....now I know why <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

Macca,

So, - are you taking the Super Taipan to Europe for the Texel this year?

Stein