Who was out this weekend?.....

Stop press: Ovington are now suggesting:

"920  for 59er Non Trapeze with class rule 150kg crew weight ( if crew is sub 150kg they must have 75% of the difference in correctors).

887 for 59er with trapeze and no min crew weight."

Seems fair to me. One for trhe next Sailing Committee...

The 29er makes huge sacrifices of stability with a narrow waterline beam, so in general it's always going to have the legs on the stable 3k in displacement conditions. It's also got bigger sails, esp. kite. But I have noticed that on flat water we can sometimes plane earlier than them (e.g. last Sunday); unfortunately that happens less than 5% of the time we're sailing. Most of the time on the water we're beating and/or in displacement mode, where the 29er has the edge.

Originally posted by redback Interesting comparison here, between the V3000 which is a Laser3000 highly modified but sailing on the same handicap, and the 59er with a trapeze which will be much faster and sails on the same handicap as a 59er without a trapeze.  This may develop into a controversail topic - wo wants to start it?

Check your facts, Redback. The V's at Wilsonian currently sail off a PN 22 points lower than a Laser 3000, as recommended by the CA.

According to my calcs, a trapeze plus the lighter crew it enables would permit the 59er to sail off a PN 30-odd points lower than in fat-boy hiking mode. I think the latter mode is not quite up to the 905 rating it currently has, but the real problem for the fatties for whom the boat was originally intended, is that the PN might come down if whippets start sailing the boat with a wire. The trap won't be as much use to the heavier crews.

James, totally entertaining thread on boards!  Sorry you had a rough time in the motherland...

yer we didn't hear any hoots, couldn't see any flags either.  And the race officer had a horrible job, they had to spin the course round at one point because the wind swung so much... Yes, the tides were horrible, I will always carry a paddle when on the sea!

Edited by HannahJ

Spent Sunday attempting to race at Hilhead sc - no wind to start with and strong tides meant most of the fleet had to be towed miles back to the startline along with several abandoned races. Then a lot of wind suddenly came in, had one windy race with a bad start, then a second less windy race with a good start but went went the wrong side of the course where there was more tide and less wind - still not got the hang of this water stuff that moves on its own.  Finished about 16/27 which isn't great, but there was some good competition and the finish of one race was a little odd...