Is this at all possible with the T-foils ?

What happened to cause this ?

Wouter

The Stealth with T Foil rudders is VERY tolerant of gusts downwind and will accelerate very quickly without burying the bow. BUT, when (if?) the T foils let go, they let go with no warning at all!!!

This particular capsize happened because I was already dealing with quite a large gust when I got hit by a further gust and didn't react quickly enough with dumping the kite. The rudders must have already been very close to their limit of grip on the water...............

John was really pushing things in about 20 knots of wind when a bigger squall hit him. One hull / rudder was already out of the water so the loading on the one hull via the foward drag of the spinnaker, was too much for the bouancy of the hull which promptly submerged virtually the whole hull. 20 knots of momentum slowing to a vitual stop in a few seconds means only one thing. No T foil would have prevented that capsize.

taipanfc

If you cannot find anywhere to upload the images, email them to me at scooby_simon (at) ntlworld.com and I'll put them somewhere for now and link them into a thread.

(10 meg at one time please)

You guys can also upload directly to out F16 gallery, the folder has already been made.

http://f16.beasts.org/gallery2/main...amp;g2_itemId=499&g2_navId=xcfd5792e

You can ask Paul Warren to give you an upload account and just do it. No need to downgrade to lower resolution or make thumbnails. Software will do that; it has already been configured. Afterwards I can fine-tune it so no need to worry about that either.

Wouter