Something’s happening

I still rekon Andy P will dominate - he seems a little tooo good................

But mate, by the looks of things youve got a big foredeck - with no jib is this necessary? or does copit space not matter?

I am loving the new swept back bows, love it on the A class too!!

Would be interesting to know what would win if, say, sail area were free and people had to find the max thrust for a given heeling moment/righting moment.

Una is great for lift/drag, but the centre of effort of a rig with jib would be lower and maybe permit a greater total area for a given heeling moment. Most of the data I've come across in Marchaj etc. refers to thrust/sideforce, which is not really the point.

The class needs to choose the config with the greatest thrust for the righting moment they have available...

Clearly, maintaining the plinth of 'fastest singlehander in the world' is less important for many as looking after boat resale prices and keeping a cap on existing sailing costs. Let's face it, the IC could not really be termed slow, even in the Aussie skiff filled context we think these days.

If voted, and these rules were applied to the AC's that would effectively create 2 classes and if not.....3 classes.

All that said, I think the new proposals represent a very exciting development and a show of real progression . I would dearly love to see this sort of class develop and should it do so as a development class, strongly consider building and racing one myself.