29er xx

I think all american means a diet made up of macdonalnds for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And a thirst for them pro-life friendly peices of engineering known as guns!!

p.s. to any americans who read this and take offence.........i just cant bring myself to say sorry for it.    but feel free to correct me

well this a wild guess but i reckon it means she is an ammerican.    but i guess if u arnt an all ammerican u must be a abit american?

I believe the rig is similiar to the 59er is size. Below is the report of the San Fran test:

 

Conditions, started out at 8-10 knt wind and 4 knt Flood tide, built to 20-22 knt with a 2-3 knt ebb tide at the end of the day, Flood and wind in same direction.

The following are all quote within 20 mins of them getting off the water, they are all quotes, except words in [ ] which I have done to give sense.

Boys went out first, then the girls and the boys sailed it home, boat was out from 11ish to 2ish.

GM= Graham Beilh, came 2nd in the US 470 Trials for Athens (has sailed 18teens)

SM= Stuart McNay, came 3rd in the US 470 Trials and is a All American (has sail a 49er)

JM = Jennifer Morgan, came 3rd in the US women's 470 Trials and is also a All American

MM = Mallory McCollum crew for the USA female team at 2002 Youth Worlds (4th place), top female skipper in 2004 US Nationals, and 3rd place in 2005 US Nationals.

All 4 are obviously American and are sailing in the 29er Worlds, GM & SM (Skipper) are sailing together and just out of the Gold Fleet, JM (Skipper) is sailing with a male and has place 2nd and 3rd in heats, she will most likely make the Gold Fleet, I think MM (Crew) will also make the Gold Fleet. All are early 20s in age.

Out of Interest we clocked the Danish team during a heat of the 29er Worlds, who where about 10th at the time doing 23knts through the water, with Janet Baxter on-board our chase boat, I didn't know they went that fast either, its wild stuff and the girls are doing well. 29erXX went up-wind in 14-16 of wind at about 11-12 knts boatspeed, fastest down wind was 19 knts when I was on-board, it got fresher after that but I was on shore.

GB => boat was more consistently powered up, great

SN => significantly more powered up-wind, more balanced [than a 29er] & more responsive. Downwind, a bit trickier [than 29er] Can't seem to get far enough aft, incredibly fast especially in 7-8 knts perfect for crews up to 300lbs (136kgs)

GB => Really fast [downwind], spin loads are light, similar to 29er, just awesome.

SN => So much better upwind [than anything else] This is the future of sailing

GM => honestly, I think its really cool that two girls like Mallory and me can sail a boat like that, [ then commented about weight and they are 275-280 lbs (125-128kgs)] That was really fun, we are going to scheme and get 3-4 of them [29erXX rigs], how soon can we have them?

The boat felt really good, expected it to feel small but it was not at all, maybe racks aft would be nice, and very happy about boom height, especially aft.

MM => Awesome, I want one, we are going to rip it out there on the Bay [San Fran] First few moves where a bit sketchy but then it was awesome!

GM => 470 was fun & really good to learn in, then the 29er is faster & more fun & you learn so much more. Now this [29erXX] is the next step forward!

For you information,

There is now this rig in San Francisco, that rig is expected to be used over the next 3-4 weeks again in San Fran and also in Montreal and Toronto where there is a line up of kids wanting to try it out.

The is also a second rig presently en-route to the UK, likely to get there on Monday (11th July) and the intention is that they will trial that rig across UK and Europe also.

To convert a 29er to a 29erXX you need.

1 x new mast which is all Carbon and very light but proven to date to be very robust.
1 x new mainsail
1 x new jib
1 x new spinnaker
1 x new ram van strut

You need to rig a 2nd set of Trapeze wire returns which are mounted on the floor rails If you have not already you need twin tiller extensions and you may wish to rig 4:1 jib sheet and extend you main-sheet hawse.

And thats it.

Only suggested mods to the rig you are seeing in the pics is possibly cut 15-20mm of the bottom of the mast, leave the fore-stay the same length and therefore drop the mast back into the boat (more rake) and drop the boom angle (Jenifer won't be happy) and the possible addition of struts or racks, these would be bolted under the gunwhale, where the existing foot loop is and extend it back to the line of the transom, we are thinking about 32mm dia carbon tube, with 1-2 extra foot loops, not sure its needed but both Jen and Stuart commented so why not give it a try.

lol i saw this thing on tv (braniac) and they proved fake tits sink.

Now what was her name?....... Lolo Ferrari... wasn't it. Very well know for
her XX bra size.

Now that's got a boats name all over it!

It's mine so get off!