Video of the week

go here and down load the Windows media player for MAC


http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/

It's cool, I worked it out. I needed the stuff-it expander. Your right about
macs, they do kick arse. And microsoft suck. But it's very frustrating having
to learn how to use a computer all over again!

Cheers for your help Jack.

More than enough for the boat mate.  Rememer it has an all up weight of 75 kg or 165 lb.

Spinnaker cats travel down wind a lot quicker, so smaller, flatter kites that produce less drag is quicker for them.  Cats have gone down the path of big kites with big sholders like the skiffs but were slower.  Flatter (less drag) = faster.

Jumping from skiff to cat and using kite, you notice that even with simular kite sizes, there is less load on the cat kites due to boats moving and more importantly, accelorating better.

just wot i was going to say!

Originally posted by MikeBz Apparent wind angle is the overriding factor with regard to depth (flatness).  Hence multis typically have much flatter kites.

 

Indeed; My first kite was flat (by dinghy standards - comments were made at Grafham) and weach of my following 2 kites have been flatter still. 

The only time when "Flat is Fast" on Cats is when talking about Kites

Edited by Scooby_simon