Y'all aren't looking at my picture, nor at the website, for your questions are answered at the website, for the most part.

That is ex-Palin's boat (Palin's ex-boat?) in the foreground, the Bird now owns it. Her name is "Carbonated Wood." Her beam is 12 feet. The production NACRA Squares were 11 feet.

What happens with a Sq is that because of the beam, the hull doesn't fly to warn you that you're overpowered.

I have a righting pole which seems to work well in the experimental deliberate flipping I've done. Palin did the sail-lift trick, walking around on the hulls, rounding the boat up to the wind angle to get the sail's assistance to right C.W.

if I recall, down there in Oz there used to be a 16 square class and NACRA made production models for that.

Phill, don't you have the series of pix of Palin building C.W.?

What killed the class is people's laziness. They don't want to a.take apart the boat or b.trailer tilted. Remember, this is the U.S., land of immediate gratification...