MX next in production

Looks like you're right on that one

http://www.mx-next.com/aug13_2014.html

"...As an early production incentive you can purchase an mxNext for $12,500 until May 1, 2014...."

Edited by fleaberto - 20 Aug 14 at 4:12pm

If the waterline beam is as narrow as it looks, I'm afraid it might be quicker than both.  Longer, wider overall and lighter  than a 100.  Assuming the prodn boat mirrors the prototype...

Light weight, no bowsprit to worry about, stabilisers Merlin-style in the form of topside flare but low wetted area if you keep it upright.  What's not to like apart from the hype?

Originally posted by JimC Originally posted by Medway Maniac If the waterline beam is as narrow as it looks, I'm afraid it might be quicker than both. bearing in mind an RS300 is also quicker than both, so what? The question is whether it will be a practical boat people want to sail, in the same way the MX-Ray - wasn't.

The 300 isn't quicker than either the D1 or RS 100 at top speed off wind in my experience, where it does leave (certainly the 100) a little shame faced is upwind and single sail reaching. I'd need to be convinced that it is noticeably faster than a D1 upwind too- those boats go very nicely to windward (considering all the pointless cargo they carry upfront)

It looks like many thousand development-class sailors and designers over the years have been wrong with their ideas like fore-and-aft trim, useable waterline length, and hull shape. Vlad has come to a design that shows where people such as Bieker, Bethwaite, Morrison, Patterson, Murray, Claridge, Walsh, Clark, Roe, Thorpe etc have been going wrong all this time, despite the fact that he has not even bothered to learn of the existence of such slow craft as the Assymetric Canoe or learn what the Canoe designers have pieced together.