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    Posted: 25 May 07 at 12:33pm
Originally posted by English Dave

The geometry is all wrong to be a windsurf sail. The foot of a windsurf sail rises to meet the clew and windsurf sails are designed for much more mast bend than that.

It looks to me like Leo Sayer has got himself a custom sail made up. Trouble is that it looks like he is still using a conventional Laser mast (the dimensions are about right and there's not much bend) so it won't work like a C2 Byte and automatically depower. 10m2 is then a heck of a lot of canvas/mylar to be holding down for someone Leo's size.



I'm sure you're right, but having a full length batten a few inches above the boom doesn't seem quite right
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Yeah, I saw that and wondered. Of course, it's a loose footed boom so you would have to have some support for the bottom panel of the sail. Perhaps it has been cut down from something larger.

The panel seem to be cut radially from the clew and the one that runs along the leach is very narrow indeed. I'm also tempted to say that to my untrained eye the bottom batten rises towards the mast as opposed to the battens above which appear parallel.
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Apparently it was made by a windsurfer sail maker. I'll have a dig around later.
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Originally posted by Norbert

I'm sure you're right, but having a full length batten a few inches above the boom doesn't seem quite right

It was common enough in the 70s...

This rather tired thirty year old mainsail is ex Nicola Bethwaite.
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i saw lepoard 3 the otherday.  they went past swac with her. she has very large daggerboards that are quite fat.  also she has about a 3m bowsprit and realitivly large coachroof.  it looks like they were trying to get to ocean village but got halfway in and then sped out again.  sorry i didnt get a pic but will try next time
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New MX-Ray type Canadian dinghy.

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here's hoping the guys in New Zealand can do a better job of there revised MX-Ray....
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Wasnt that hulll pictured on this thread last year?

Either way that thing is fugly... Bring on the MK2 Ray
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Yes it was, that was the prototype, this looks like the production boat.

the ugly tree got seriously in the way of this boat, maybe the mould was made form planks of ulgy wood.
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Looks a bit like a non-trapeze Musto!
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i dont think it looks too bad actually. the leech on the main isnt very nice and neither is the cut of the kite but i dont think the hull looks that bad. would be nice to see it in some wind, that main looks huge!
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