V Twin

He's right, there are so many little things that need sorting now and the combination make a lot to do, it was a bloody miracle what happened yesterday, just 2nd time out that it did all that, frankly we're all a bit nonplussed  given how bad it went first go round.

Now they were really benign conditions in flat water and although we did get out in the mid channel to bang it about and check that it remained 'sea' worthy, before some huge container thing forced us to high tail it back upwind, the Solent aint the English Channel and that's going to be it's big test, but it got so far yesterday for me to sign it off onto the next stage and paint and finish with with some more mods, loads of them and as Ash said as test sails go it was one of the better one's he's ever done, but more importantly it can only get faster from herein with all the stuff they have yet to do and now he's off on vacation so more waiting..

But come next spring and the Dinghy show if I'm spared, it should be a bit more polished and proven.

I'm loving those wing masts, but can't afford to build one, but I'm thinking double skin a sail leading edge and fill it with a  kitesurf bladder, so the sail mast combo would be air filled and reasonably fared, it would mean pumping it up like we do kitesurfing, but it would put paid to any idea of it going all the way over.

I'm pretty sure I've got bladders in stock up to 30 ft span. Think I might have to use my windsurf sailmaker to do it though, yottie ones would think I'm mental.

-Righting it like a dinghy with mast downwind in a blow doesn't work, too much windage on the hull blows it back over again. Needs bringing up nose into the wind or with the wind under the mast. More like a cat I guess.

-Don't let go of it at any point as it drifts faster than you can swim with the wind behind it.

 

Presumably somme of this would apply?