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Originally posted by Jack Sparrow On a serious point I am interested by the mains leech profile, it looks to me as if this is the first time I have seen modern floppy leech windsurfing sail design ideas being employed on a dinghy.

This is one of the advantages of a SMOD... the floppy leech is not a very efficient use of limited sail area, but it is a very effective way to make the sail area easier to handle. So on a boat where you are free to choose sail design such a design will tend to be at a disadvantage because its not the best use of available sail area. On an SMOD this isn't an issue.

In this case too another advantage is that because the Cherub mast height restriction is really too short you are stuggling to get the area in without ending up with a very long boom. This design gets the area in and makes it controllable, so it looks like a good choice in the circumstances.

I'm rather less convinced about the short battens in the leech of both this sail and the Daemon one. I suspect that long battens give you better mid leech control with a very big roach as in the Kiwi 12 footer/R inspired rigs like Atum Boms. There won't be a rig like that at the trials though by the look of it.

Either a genius or not right in the head, i am not sure which

full battens.

edit:

but i've just looked again and it could be going back out from the top short batten to the very top full batten.






Edited by Jack Sparrow

Oh well... much less interesting then 

The transition rig thing - that's a mirror hull! i'm sure...