Hadron H2

Originally posted by Keith_Callaghan IGRF, the 'big fat head' is there for a purpose, not just to look sexy. Jim Hunt (HD Sails) has designed the sail to provide 'gust response' - so that the leech eases off in a gust, thus depowering the rig. The amount can be adjusted via kicker and Cunningham. With sail no 1, it seemed to work a treat.

Yes, I get that and they are useful for the sort of target venue with trees and stuff around for light airs and most normal weight folk will handle them I'm sure.

But, personally I'm off the whole idea, once they depower all you have is acres of parasitic drag, when you need them to power up you need a kicker array that would power a yacht, and I guess I'm just 'over' the whole look, it's just a personal viewpoint not being critical per se, we've had' fatter' head sails since the dawn of time in my world and it's only now as my progress down the years in this lark is revealing new downsides to having so much area up there, that my viewpoint has altered.

And anyway, what's to stop you chucking up a smaller rag and calling it H3, or H Fire, H Bomb even, it's all the rage these days, then give it a slow handicap and go round the country robbing us mortals of our chocolates..

Nice big powerful cunningham required :)
Looks good

Originally posted by iGRF  ...it's one thing handling the bloody things on the water, but hauling their nasty arses around boat parks and up slipways...

It used to be possible to embed a you tube video, but I can't remember exactly the code.. Any way here's that video of the launch, big fat head sail puts me off it has to be said but other than that, it looks a super boat.



So that big gap is where the video should be, try cllcking the blue link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqOodLTg5M

Edit, got it sorted..


Edited by iGRF - 15 Feb 16 at 12:09pm

The pertinent question that needs asking, is what size is the sail, boats themselves by and large don't determine the size of the helm, it's the rig and more importantly wether the damn thing can be sufficiently depowered.

My logic was always, it didn't really matter, because most of the dinghy things I had observed was that if it's that windy they don't race anyway. Now of late that has proven not to be true, even found myself breaking every rule I set 20 years ago now about not going out in sub 10 degrees in wind exceeding 10 knots for fear of getting those infernal hot hurts that agonise those of us that have to hold the sail up by the boom when racing. But I'm now lucky enough to have a boat with a rig that does depower sufficient that I can get round in fair order in a biting cold nasty squally race, and that's what I now look for in a boat.

That and of course it truly being capable of my hauling it into and out of the water and if it's anything like yesterday with almost the entire boat park underwater in slippy slimy mud, just getting enough traction to haul it around. These are the real world problems, it's one thing handling the bloody things on the water, but hauling their nasty arses around boat parks and up slipways and that was what ruled that H2 out for me when i first set eyes on it, nice enough that it might be in other departments, it looked like a big old monster rig and it was most certainly a monster of a boat for one person to haul about.

Having said all that there are plenty of bigger younger and stronger blokes about, I'd say it will make a good chariot for the disaffected Phantomeer, until such times as the b**tards on the PYAG take a dislike to it.

Edited by iGRF - 15 Feb 16 at 10:23am