Very beautiful.
Now we can either rake the bow back, put a lot of carbon and reinforcing in the hull to take the increased loading or we can move the mounting point as far foward as possible by leaving the bow almost vertical, I choose the latter as unless you are doing about 30 knots the true wave piercing bows simply do not work. I do understand why we narrow down the top part of the hull but it has nothing to do with wave piercing.
Would I do the same if I was building another boat, nah raked back bows just look so much more ubber cool
Raked back bows looks cool now, but when the fashion trend is over, it looks as old school as a Dart 18. Seeing that you use your brain rather than following the trend makes the boat even more beautiful.
With the A-cat mast (9m length?), what is the final weight? 85kg?
Cheers,
Klaus
Oh I like that, nice comment on the boat rather than the tacky clewsy bit, yes I did have the spinnaker back to front when first putting it on, wasn't thinking very straight after the cider offered for a liquid lunch by guess who.
Talking of weight, I think the central beam has a lot of merit, it saves a lot of heavy components and if the forestay is added into the equation, it means a proper working jib and a screacher rather than the spinny we now use. The beam and front pole is only about 2 kilos at the moment so lighter than a conventional snuffer setup. Anyone out there good at converting loads to carbon fibre layup ?
