What ever gave you that idea ?

I think this has been covered plenty of times even with you personally and otherwise the public statement has been on the F12 website ever since Januari 2007.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~whijink/F12/

And I though fish has a short memory span. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Phill Blade 12 is intended for young kids, which I think refers to as 7-10 year olds. My F12 is intended for solo sailing (that includes small short course racing as well) for 12+ year olds. Doublehanded if they start younger. On the other side of the spectrum are adult women and very light adult males.

It is not a scaled down F16 as it only has a single unstayed mainsail, no daggerboards or even a mainsheet tackle system like the F16's.

With respect to fitting a windsurfer rig to the F12 or Blade 12 this is how you do it :




Basically you keep the bottom section of the alu mast tubing and fit the front of the windsurfer boom to its top. The windsurfer mast foot is then fitted to a plate that is bolted or welded to the backside of the mainbeam. But I caution you, most windsurfer rigs are very flexible and will pump in unstable wind on a craft like a landyacht or F12. I've found this out by test sailing several mast on this vehical :



The mast show actually has a timbed rod with 40 mm diameter tucked up its inside for the first 2 meter to get the lower portion stiff enough to give is a nice behaviour in gusts. Another mast I test had a 2 mm thick wall aluminium tube hammered into the bottom but pumped like crazy still.

Also take a look at Grobs craft to see the same setup used on a sailboat.


Wouter