Rolf, Bitsa was mothballed this season, there had been a lot of discussion going on about the jib and such like that I had become a little concerned that I had been going in a wrong direction with the eventual final spec for her, Main, blade jib and Spinny, that when an A Class platform came up ( I already had the rig and owning and sailing an A had always been one of those things to tick off in ones life ) I opted to run the A for a season ( known platform and rig )to learn about the mainsail and how to get the best out of them.

Intention is to now run the A rig back on Bitsa with a blade jib over the winter and next season just to see just what differnce a jib can make, it will give me a 14sqm main and 2.5sqm jib plus standard spinny.

Foils are still the standard late Stealths but at some stage I will need to rethink this as I've learned from the A just how small both the foils need to be. Perhaps at some stage in the near future some curvy things might appear but lets do one stage at a time.