Bluewave

K1, with wings and without the keel

Have wondered about a single hander  with wings and a self tacking jib that you could pole out with a dangly pole, sort of skinny Hadron with wings, increased efficiency with the jib, that could sail dead down wind, more suited to restricted water sailing than an assymetric and less likely to land you in trouble than a spinnaker.  Jib could be transparent mylar for best visibility.

Originally posted by fab100 ]in which case your best bet would be a twin pole system as used by Merlins and 505s

Prized from my cold dead hands, because hell will have frozen over...

Originally posted by iGRF But my current thinking is how to have another bash at that Fireblade/Hybrid and see if I can't devise some method of flying a symmetric spinnaker single handed (thinking maybe a dangly pole), now that would be cool on the lake, bye bye Lasers downwind.

 

Edited by fab100 - 19 Mar 22 at 11:44am

Originally posted by 423zero At least with unstayed rig, he can let the boom go right forward, presuming that's what he wants from space age rigging? Trade off being bendy mast, perhaps designers could concentrate their efforts on a mast that doesn't need standing rigging.

What like the literally hundreds of thousands of unstayed windsurfing masts that support sail sizes well up to the same levels as racing dinghys, then there was the D 1 of course, probably another PYAG victim, certainly a victim here, just like the Pornstar will be..

Oh and you're quite correct in my thinking of an unstayed mast preference, but that was before my foray into trapeze sailing, so strike a trapeze off the list and stays really become irrelevant unless you wish to employ some ridiculously oversize spinnaker. But my current thinking is how to have another bash at that Fireblade/Hybrid and see if I can't devise some method of flying a symmetric spinnaker single handed (thinking maybe a dangly pole), now that would be cool on the lake, bye bye Lasers downwind.


Edited by iGRF - 19 Mar 22 at 10:41am