interesting rig

Well, yes, obviously the battern has floodlights.....how else could a mammal see well enough at night to fly safely?  They have two under each wing when juveniles, and grow a third when mature. Derrr....

Edited by Chris 249 - 07 Oct 16 at 11:22am

Originally posted by jaydub Looks like a poor man's attempt at radial to me.  The diagonal things emanating from the clew are definitely seams.  I can see some slight creasing near the tack, but that is it. Or do I need to get my eyes tested again?

Looks to me like as much area as you could reasonably put on that mast?
Nobody's asked the big question:
Wot's the kite like?

It certainly doesn't look very windy in those pictures... for half the fleet not to bother going out that's pretty bad. The crew on the 3000 isn't even on the wire in half of the pictures. Certainly never flat wiring!

Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by jaydub Wot's the kite like? Bet your life it's the V3000 kite that I recall is bigger than the L3k, was it even a mast head affair, can't remember now, but there was a lot of banditry surrounding the L3k with them being turned out using V3k bits a couple of years back at our place and with the agreement of the L3k class of the period. Does anyone else think there's quite a lot of mastbend curve for an alloy job, did they fit carbon spars to the V3k? Maybe it's a carbon rig?

You can put whatever rig on it. The hull remains shall be say one of life's little compromises?

If that main works well on an ali mast to give a responsive, auto-depowering rig with extra area, that's progress isn't it?
Unless it relies on super-dooper battens which cost more than a carbon mast.....
Provided it lasts reasonably well? I could imagine such a sail might not keep its shape as the material ages? I was trying to work out how many races my 400 sails have done. It's a lot!