New F18 : Loday White Shockwave (Photo)

That rig looks huge!

Nice piece of kit

Edited by ASok

From voilesnews.fr, they say 18.345 Euros complete freigh and taxes included so in the UK, it might be less ...


Edited by StormySeaSailor

The daggerboards coming out of Loday/White have always suprised me with their fragility. My wife and her father destroyed several daggerboards in their Spitfire and were often told to raise them a couple of inches to reduce the likelyhood of it happening again, but surely a foil that small should be strong enough to be left fully down all the time?
I was also suprised to see that in the construction of the foils they seem to use a couple of layers of glass over foam with no stiffeners.
The weight saving from this cant be much when you compare the foils to most dinghy foils which are significantly stiffer and designed to stay down all the time.

The stern looks interesting with plenty of volume and hints towards a semi-planing design either that or my eyes are screwed!

Originally posted by craiggo The daggerboards coming out of Loday/White have always suprised me with their fragility. My wife and her father destroyed several daggerboards in their Spitfire and were often told to raise them a couple of inches to reduce the likelyhood of it happening again, but surely a foil that small should be strong enough to be left fully down all the time? I was also suprised to see that in the construction of the foils they seem to use a couple of layers of glass over foam with no stiffeners. The weight saving from this cant be much when you compare the foils to most dinghy foils which are significantly stiffer and designed to stay down all the time. The stern looks interesting with plenty of volume and hints towards a semi-planing design either that or my eyes are screwed!

I sailed on the Spitfire since the first prototypes and the only time I broke a daggerboard was went it hit a rock ... actually I feel lucky that it broke instead of the hull ...

I did countless long distance races with heavy crews, daggerboards down, 2 traps and the spinaker on, I'm still waiting for a daggerboard to fail ...

The only time I have broken a dagger board was when I tried to sail over a very large buoy... Frankly, if it hadn't broken, I don't know if I'd ever have gotten off the thing. Otherwise, I sailed the Spitfire with both boards fully down, upwind and downwind, in all sorts of weather and waves, no problem.