Widening the weight range.

iGRF if you look here http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html you will see a very large Banner Ad that you can click. And this will take you to a page where you can buy your plans. You can even pay via PayPal. You can choose to have the CNC files which you can use to cut your wood which you purchase from Robbins. All of this information is available on the same website. The plans contain everything you need to make your dinghy. Plus we have provided Blog's of all the people that have built there's so far so you can avoid there mistakes. Or understand more easily the build process.

You'd need to change the rig anyway as the trap would change the bend characteristics of the mast (or snap it), so you may as well bung on a 12 or 13 SqM sail and be done with it.

Or design a new boat, long and slim, specially for lightweights who find waterline length and speed fun, rather than shouty FUN!!!!!!!!! with far too many exclamation marks. Something less extreme than the IC, without racks but with a trapeze and a smallish sail coupled with an easily driven hull with decent non trap performance. Maybe RS should produce it, call it the Twix or something.

Or have Hobie had than name already?

Jim C. You tried to help me get my head around the geometry of this before.

Edited by Do Different - 17 Nov 14 at 7:19pm

Originally posted by iGRF Nope, it needs to be sold Ikea Style... Boat in a Box, easy assembly everything you need to make this exciting new boat, £999.99. It's a dumbed down world we live in, we want it and we want it now, don't mind spending a weekend putting it together, nothing more I'm afraid. That Butler Boats should prefabricate it then pack it all up in a box, you might sell a few more.

So are all the parts pre-painted in your scenario, GRF?

I don't think the 3.7 would work for this (too complex a shape) but I'm sure it would be possible to make a very simple boat to be put together in a weekend (with primed panels to reduce the amount of painting) but the compromises in design for the construction over the performance would be pretty big. The method of slotting the panels together has been around for 40 years or more, but normally there are a lot of parts, so it takes time. Best bet would probably be a scow shape boat - could even be totally rectangular, vertical sided - all the shape in the flat bottom panel, built upside down off a flat deck. Would go great on a reach.