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Topic: cant canter @ cowes

Posted By: Oli
Subject: cant canter @ cowes
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 12:04pm

so what do you think? good decision or bad.

I believe that CWL have made the right choice in restricting them to being fixed amidships, unless more decide to turn up and then they would be eligable for there own class.

a few owners have complained but how many of them had actually already signed up?

your thoughts?

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Posted By: andyrj
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 2:51pm

this is similar to refusing entry of a foiling moth to a handicap event.

you can't sail a canting keel boat decently with it fixed in the middle... it'd be like telling a modern I14 it can have a bowsprit but it must use a symetric kite and pole.

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Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 3:15pm

it is aload of crap. most of the boats wont be able to sail in cowes, or will do and be overpowered very quickly. cheaftian are protesting against it so it may be dropped

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Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 6:29pm

Windsurfers came to be banned from most dinghy events because their performance profile over the wind range was so different - given that PY is an average, in some windstrengths they couldn't win, in others they couldn't lose. Same applies to cats and now I think there's a similar case to be made for foilers.

But canting keels are an integral part of the boat design; hard to see how you can sail the boats effectively with the keel locked. Even with a smaller rig and a new rating they will be undercanvassed for their length/wetted area without a new keel as well.

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Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 6:42pm

Originally posted by olly_love

most of the boats

Most of what boats? Chieftain hasn't turned up to Cowes anyway recently. Cowes organisers have said that if there are half a dozen canters they can have a class. There are actually precious few such boats likely to want to attend anyway.

Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 10:18pm

sorry i ment most of the canters

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Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 28 Feb 08 at 6:21am

I realise that. The point is that there are virtually none actually wanting to attend Cowes this year anyway. If there were, the organisers have said they could have a class of their own.