taipanfc: The only time we ever put two on the wire with the chute up is when spin reaching. Putting more than one adult body on the wire downwind usually isn't that conductive to downwind VMG.
bear in mind the the comment comes from Thailand where the average weight of a man is SIGNIFICANTLY lighter than of an American or Australian....
TaipanFC is an Ex Pat (Skip) and I beilieve a significant number of their club's sailors are ex pat.
If you look at the AC boats the curved boards are forward of the front cross bar. This would make sense since the purpose is to just keep the bows up. I wonder if the placement of the boards is to far aft. The placement works for a balanced sailplane. But the further aft the boards the more the nose comes up in porportion to the lift the boards create. They may need to move the boards or reduce the amount of curve thus reducing the amount of lift.
Jeff Bowers Mystere 6.0(sometimes XL)
Re: Comment on the new Nacra 20
[Re: Jeff_Bowers]
#200429 01/13/1007:04 PM01/13/1007:04 PM
wonder if you can figure something out on T foil rudder (or canard) to adjust the stern up & down to counter the boards. Like twist the rudder stick and it changes the angle of attack on the rudder foil?
Jay
Re: Comment on the new Nacra 20
[Re: sbflyer]
#200472 01/14/1012:03 PM01/14/1012:03 PM
Visited Nacra Europe today, they were putting together the new 20 it just arrived at Nacra Europe. All were very proud on the boat. Peter Vink [Technical Director Nacra]told me that the reason the mast is not on, since they are awaiting the new CARBON mast!! It looks out of this world, it is sooo wide and sooo long, realy cool boat!!! I took some pictures with my phone which I will try to upload later. The bows are the most spectacular, never seen anything like it
Re: Comment on the new Nacra 20
[Re: Nacrasailor]
#201027 01/22/1003:10 PM01/22/1003:10 PM
most say I was impressed by the build quality, considering this is hull #1, see the pictures how the beams are in the "bedding" really small tollerance. Peter told me that they put a lot of effort in these tolerances for stifness and in the overal build quality. Sails looked, felt rather different, the cloth is a bit "solid", => I realize that it sounds stupid but don't know a better way to explain
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Re: Comment on the new Nacra 20
[Re: Nacrasailor]
#201039 01/22/1004:00 PM01/22/1004:00 PM
Thanks for the pics and summary. Looks like the same aluminum beam extrusion, or is it carbon? Seems if your going all in ,you would have carbon beams.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Sails looked, felt rather different, the cloth is a bit "solid"
I know what you're talking about. They feel more like a thick roll of plastic than cloth.... is that what you mean to suggest?
not really, what I mean is that the sails feels more "solid" like if it would be very hard to fold [they didn't let me...}. I have a N20 one design, with 2 year old sails, but my sails really feel different
btw. the sails are crosscut
Re: Comment on the new Nacra 20
[Re: Nacrasailor]
#201044 01/22/1004:47 PM01/22/1004:47 PM
Sails looked, felt rather different, the cloth is a bit "solid"
I know what you're talking about. They feel more like a thick roll of plastic than cloth.... is that what you mean to suggest?
not really, what I mean is that the sails feels more "solid" like if it would be very hard to fold [they didn't let me...}. I have a N20 one design, with 2 year old sails, but my sails really feel different
btw. the sails are crosscut
That looks like a fabric with a much wider scrim pattern and thicker scrim threads.