Humm ! This is getting a little bit out of hand. I hope he will not be irritate at me for spilling the beans.
Won't you (potentially) overload the bow areas running all that tension down to the forestay first ?
No, because any tension put on the spi halyard in this situation will lower the tension in the forestay by the same amount. In effect, the load on the bows will remain unaffected. That is just the beauty of it.
But I won't elaborate any further at this time beyond the point that I think it is a very interesting development myself and that I'm quite thrilled to see the EU importer of F16's boats engage in such efforts to evolve the F16 design. (And there are other idea's being tested as well)
How many importers/agents do that ?
I think we can consider ourselfs lucky with F16 agents like that.
If any of you want to scoop on things like this on the shortest possible time frame then I guess you guys just have to come over for the F16 Global Challenge in 10 weeks time !
And be sure to stay on for the long distance race (REM-race) that directly follows our week of bouy racing. It will be great to see a fleet of F16's participating in this 100+ boat race. There will be a very strong F18 fleet there for this distance race and if we can get 15-20 F16's participating then that would be absolutely perfect.
Wouter
