V3- Early sketches

We're ahead of you on the inflatable sup, variable rockers and all sorts, there have been boats built using the technology. I'm not quite grasping your concept of the space frame to heel to weather how is that different from what I'm attempting? Other than using metal instead of a wood deck to secure the pivot point? I may yet be forced to do that a la EPS three point shroud system if the wood option isn't practical.

PS I never believed Peter Chilvers, not from that day to this.

Are you talking about the sort of thing they have in an Iso/Buzz is it?

I may yet be forced to do that a la EPS three point shroud system if the wood option isn't practical.

Just use yor current EPS rig .... its there and cheap enough.   

Do you remember  Mr Shaun Cox's Div 1 boards many years ago ( he was an ex- European Moth Champion I think and founded Demon Sails) - twin bows blending into a common flat aft section for offwind.  You sailed it upwind on an angle so that one bow or other was engaged on either tack..... and it was really was very competitive against anythign around and looked easy to manage as well  - he got the rocker absolutely right to make the concept work.  A part tunnel hull concept but this one really was fast compared against everything around it .... 

Might be an alternative starting point.

Mike L.

     


Edited by blaze720 - 05 Dec 14 at 6:07pm

Originally posted by RS400atC You seem to have some idea about a hybrid cat-monohull, how about starting with a cat and designing out all the bad features of cats? (if that's possble?)(how do you design out 'will be bought by cat sailors'?)

Originally posted by RS400atC Graeme,What exactly is the object of this?

To design out all the faults I find with other boats.

As I said back there, I don't like falling in the water, so stop all that.

I want to go up wind high and fast and I want to go offwind and downwind without all that rock n rolling.

I want to race on the lake against Lasers and stuff, yet still turn to on the sea and be in with a shout against Contenders, in brief I want everything in one boat.

Every boat I've sailed, including those two new Wunderkind *eros have issues I don't like.

So like the saying goes, if you want something doing, do it yourself.

My measure of success will be if I can *win races on the sea and on the lake.


*Over the water that is, don't even talk about handicap, which if my spreadsheet is to be believed will turn in around 1040-50 given I'm targeting a sail around 8.5 and a waterline length around 4.25.

oh and all this as well. E.g., you're planning to sail on a pond?
Are we looking for fast? easy to sail? cope with lots of wind? cope with waves? go well in the light stuff?
Cheap to build?
Nice to look at?
Marketable?
Weight carrier?

Not sure about the marketable, it's probably a bit too off the wall for the conservative world that is the 'dinghy market', it's pure self indulgence without the need to take it to market.

Edited by iGRF - 05 Dec 14 at 8:19pm