""I say assymmetric dagger on a cat on bouys DON"T, gibing boards on a cat, MIGHT BE WORTHY A LOOK.
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<br>Remember that there is a difference between the two !
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<br>Assym boards won't help you much for you always have to lift one board. so you optimize the characteristic of one board but lose alot of total board area at the same time. Netto result could well be the same or even negative.""
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<br>EA Bethwite's book high performance Sailing had a section on asymetrical boards. He concluded from testing that for a board of the same size there was no lift/drag advantage to a asymetric board. He also stated that later when he realy thought about it, the advantage of an asymetrical board might be that it could be much smaller than the equivelent symetrical board.
<br>Makes you wonder wether a cat with 2 boards anyway might be the perfect test platform. You might not need both down at once and they might be smaller if they were asymetric.
<br>Eric
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