Out95

What's the point?

They're saying long narrow hulls are fast. No s£$%. Really? Never knew that.

So, compared to a tri or a cat:

Heavier - all that lead. Less efficient shape - the drag from those wings must be huge compared to well designed floats. Can't fly the boat from just the wing, as you can fly from one hull/float on a cat or a tri - so less powerful - and in ultra light conditions when you're balanced on one hull, the lead is ripping the guts out of the acceleration.

However, I doubt very much that there is enough lead onboard to stop it turning over - the AVS must be horrific, as a result of the aircraft-carrier sized deck the force required to right it again from inverted must be huge. Why would you take the floats off a tri, and use lead for stability instead?

Obviously you can't take it offshore, so you're left with day racing against keelboats, blatting round the course faster but getting hammered on handicap. Well, whoopee-f$%^&-do, what a great thrill that would be. "Rounding the windward mark now, do we have an overlap to defend - uh no. The opposition are 10 mins behind. Unfortunately, after this much racing, we owe them all an hour"

I bet any racing multi of the same length would be faster. So what's the point?

no

but somthing diffrent is still good

somthing to add to the coleshon

Except that it's got a lump of lead stuck on the bottom...

I can't help feeling that once you've accepted the penalty of a lump of lead you'd be better off canting it to produce righting moment rather than just using the crew weight (or put the crew out on seriously wide racks). Some of the 'predicted' performance figures look decidedly optimistic for a fixed-keel-leadmine.  More than twice windspeed?

It looks more 'odd' than 'wow' to me.

Mike