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Michigan | looks like quite an awesome boat. I want one. replacement board has to be at least 800$ though. that would suck.
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Michigan | Replacement board I heard was $1300 are you friggin kidding? I was thinking 1k, but wanted to give them the benefit of doubt.
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Australia | I said:- it's comparable to an F18 board in price/size ratio
The F18 board is smaller and hence cheaper. The F20 boards are doing a lot more than a normal daggerboard, so don't underestimate the complexity of their job!
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I said:- it's comparable to an F18 board in price/size ratio
The F18 board is smaller and hence cheaper. The F20 boards are doing a lot more than a normal daggerboard, so don't underestimate the complexity of their job!
Remember this when Macca makes another (broad) statement in the future guys ! With him there is always a catch ! Wouter
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[Re: macca]
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| Wayne, again you simply just don't understand how stuff is built. Macca you come straight back with the above statment, you know full well that I know more than most about this sort of thing and yet you still put it in writing. This is typical, time you put a bit of thought into things before putting it out on the net. A curved spar is no more costly nor time consuming to make in mould than a straight spar. May I also remind you that a curved structure is always stronger in one direction than a straight structure which is inherantly weak in both directions, I think the Romans proved that a good few years ago. As I said earlier you are all smoke and mirrors. | | | Re: See the F20c in person
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| Macca like yourself, compared to some on this forum I know very little, what I do know is that a dagger board is simply built in a process which is no different whether it is curved or not.
Yes you are correct, there will be additional loads requiring additional layers of strengthening fibres, but those fibres will cost little in the comparison to the materials over all costs. I'm talking 10's of dollars rather than 100's.
The highest cost of these type of products is the R & D but over a volume product then most of these costs can be absorbed into quite small numbers per item produced.
Its time we took the ohhhh factor out of curved boards, they have been around a very long time ( the very early Farriers had them way back in the 80's ) and got on with the job of learning how to sail with them as one thing for certain, the marketing boys and girls have them in their sights as the next holy grail and will push them hard in the next few years, what ever their worth.
As I have said before, I will reserve judgement on their worth until classes such as the A class, where the light weight of the platform should enhance this type of structures useage, have firmly come on side.
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LA | Macca,
I'll put a break in the exchange between you and Wayne. In the test video, it looks like it's a bit too easy to get a "wheelie" with the boat which while cool to watch, does not seem fast in a straight line. Our experience with the curved boards in the A-Class is to fine tune to get just enough lift to keep the bows up but not much more. Some of the A-Cats are using trunks that allow adjustment of the daggerboard fore and aft rake for different conditions.
It looks like you are always sailing with the windward board at least half up both upwind and downwind. Towards the end of the video, there is a shot of the boat sailing upwind on port tack with the leeward board up about 4-6 inches. Do you think the boards may have too much lift potential (like they experienced with the first iteration for the M-20)? Just curious if there might be more fine tuning.
There is still a lot to be learned about curved daggerboards for sure.
Bob Hodges
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[Re: waynemarlow]
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Australia | Macca like yourself, compared to some on this forum I know very little, what I do know is that a dagger board is simply built in a process which is no different whether it is curved or not.
Yes you are correct, there will be additional loads requiring additional layers of strengthening fibres, but those fibres will cost little in the comparison to the materials over all costs. I'm talking 10's of dollars rather than 100's.
The highest cost of these type of products is the R & D but over a volume product then most of these costs can be absorbed into quite small numbers per item produced.
Its time we took the ohhhh factor out of curved boards, they have been around a very long time ( the very early Farriers had them way back in the 80's ) and got on with the job of learning how to sail with them as one thing for certain, the marketing boys and girls have them in their sights as the next holy grail and will push them hard in the next few years, what ever their worth.
As I have said before, I will reserve judgement on their worth until classes such as the A class, where the light weight of the platform should enhance this type of structures useage, have firmly come on side.
Wayne, you can think what you like, but its pretty stupid to try and tell me the component cost breakdown of developing and building these things. I know because I have been involved from concept to production. You are making assumptions without any practical application or first hand knowledge. And to use the A class as a measure of the boards viability is a fallacy as I have pointed out in another thread. But if thats the measure you want to use then go ahead... | | |
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