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sargesail ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Jan 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1459 |
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Now that's what the Devoti should look like. BTW a great project that looks like it is delivering a great boat. Dinghy R&D the way it should be done. |
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G.R.F. ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028 |
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![]() Here, this guys spent 4 years trying to get it right, just read the detail of how much attention he's paying to battens and contrast that with local experience. I bet once that boat is sorted it'll be a real quality ride. Edited by G.R.F. |
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Medway Maniac ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 May 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2788 |
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But camber inducers, RAF, all that stuff, has been tried by Moths, right? Is still used by them, maybe? Would seem sensible for any una-rigged dinghy that doesn't need to raise and lower the sail by halyard. [N.B. that we've reversed the trend and turned one of GRF's 'Banter' topics into 'Dinghy Development' - the triumph of civilisation!] |
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
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Wishbones etc have been tried many times over the years, from long before boards even existed - where do you think the idea came from? I can remember at least one attempt on a fast multihull in the 60s. They just don't seem to provide the right sort of control for a dinghy rig.
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G.R.F. ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028 |
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Didn't the guy with the 'punk' boat daniel hollman was his name or
something similar posted here a bit, didn't he use a semi windsurfer style rig. I can see no reason why one couldn't be fashioned to work, but in standard form their clews are too high in the upright position and the foot is too low and would intefere with the side of the boat. But I see no reason at all for the mast bend and wishbone boom style being used indeed i"m sure it must have over the years, just not in any performance set up. In fact that RS600 rig I notice works very similarly to a windsurfer rig of that period with the amount of variety in it's shape as young Dumberer never seems to cease in demonstrating to anyone who will listen in the boat park. |
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Medway Maniac ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 May 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2788 |
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What a bizarre way to rig it. I'd have thought there was some scope for using a surf rig on a singlehander (to harness all that camber-induced efficiency you keep telling us about GRF - got to be better than a Topper/Minisail unbattened job, whatever), but all attempts to do so seem to have failed. Can anyone shed some light? Is it a twist-control (or lack of it) issue? |
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