V Twin

It is an absolute blast to yacht about on in a breeze, but if you do cock up as I did yesterday after another of my dubious control systems jammed and took me over, (The problem at Hythe, once you're out in a breeze especially at High Tide, there's no easy go back sort something out then go back out again, so I shouldn't really have tagged onto the back of a race with a main sheet that was too short and a jib semi permanently sheeted in, not a jib the size of my Alto jib in that breeze.

Anyway it had to be tested and now I know, it does turtle big style and if you think it's stable and difficult to put over when it's the right way up you should try righting it with a twenty horse outboard in a fairly hefty sea once it's fully up ended. I did get to study the bottom and noted the centreboard was tilted too far forward though.

So it's back to the drawing board with the view of designing something that isn't too knaff to stop the mast going under, that and repairing the damage the prop of the boat did to various bits...

Hey ho, not straightforward this boat developing stuff is it?

I think it is generally understood that you are a fairly low-displacement person?, Judging by the use of engines you were completely stuck down once inverted or under more favourable conditions would you have got it to move at all and lift an edge?

don't t hey carry those lever arms on some of them... I've not sailed them other than off a caribbean beach in shorts and (shock) no buoyancy aid... I still managed to capsize it.