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KnightMare ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682 |
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thres absolutly nothing wrong with symetric spinnis.
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nixy30633 ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 03 Apr 05 Location: England Online Status: Offline Posts: 37 |
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yeah, dont diss symmetric spinnis, i have a symmetric spinni on my boat, and anyway, they mean you can sail further downwind
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andy_cherub ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 16 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 768 |
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Hummm, not when we get enough apparent and go further below you - oh, and to the mark 1st |
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KnightMare ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682 |
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of course ur gona beat her to the mark cadets r tiny.
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nixy30633 ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 03 Apr 05 Location: England Online Status: Offline Posts: 37 |
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hey, we could beat them on a handicap race, well at least stephen probably could
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KnightMare ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682 |
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COULD, Soz but had to be emphasised |
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Jack Sparrow ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965 |
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Jack Sparrow ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965 |
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Blobby ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 May 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 779 |
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On boats that go relatively slowly downwind symetrical kites are vastly superior. BUT if the boat can go fast enough an assymetric kite is what you need. SO RS200's would probably be better off with symetrical kites...but it would be a bit daft putting one on an RS800. |
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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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In the early days of asymmettric kites on Cherubs we didn't find much straight line speed difference. However being overtaken by three boats on every gybe rather encouraged the conversion anyway. Its difficult to make a true comparison because boats with asymmettric kites tend to have far bigger kites anyway. When the Cherub changed it was considered essential to make the asymmettrics far bigger because otherwise we were told by sailmakers they wouldn't have worked. Even with pole kites at least some people would gybe downwind in a breeze. However having said that in any sail you need the fullness at the front rather than the back, and that's rather difficult to do with a symmettric sail. I also suspect that those erly asymmettric kites were just a lousy shape - no-one in the UK knewhow to cut them yet! |
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