Singlehander Layout Ideas

It was the Unit which had the tractor seat, briefly.

Originally posted by Dougaldog However, none of these systems were as successful as a simple sliding seat.

Maybe it depends how you measure success. There are, as well as I can judge, rather more active racing boats in the world using the simple moderate style of folding winglet than there are boats using sliding seats. They just aren't in the UK.

The sliding seat has no peer when it comes to providing maximum righting moment, and the International Canoe has no peer when it comes to providing upwind performance in a single handed boat.

But age does weary, and after over 40 years sailing boats that were at the ragged edge I'm forced to consider something more moderate, and the well established folding winglet looks like a useful thing to consider, potentially bringing a useful increase in upwind power with a minimum of weight and drag

Thank You RS  

Originally posted by RS400atC It's a bit more complicated than that, due to rig pre-load etc etc.

Its a lot more complicated than that...

For example, because the trapeze unloads the shrouds, most trapeze boats run a great deal of static rig tension in order to keep the spreaders working. A major point of the sometimes decried diamonds on the RS600 is that the mast support is independent of shroud tension, so there is no need to run very high rig tension to support the mast with that rig setup. But in most cases a boat with trapezes requires higher static tension than boats with wings or sliding seats.

Edited by JimC - 12 Jun 16 at 7:16pm