The CE of the sailpan is the center of its area point
on most standard type sails take a point from the tack and clew up diagonally 2 /3 of the way up on the luff and leach ,---where they intersect is close to the CE -
Darryl / Carl,
Virtually all designers use the centroid (center of area) as the CE. Since in a beach cat the sails work as arfoils in a laminar flow almost all the time, I imagine that a more precise position of the CE could be calculated using airfoil theory, like when designing a wing.
Likewise, since the CLR position is important mostly when the underwater shape is working as a foil, it is also not exactly in the centroid and could be calculated more or less the same way.
Do you think this is wrong or only too complicated for practical puroses?
Thanks,
