hi wouter,

do you have any pics or plans of the different profile sections?

thanks

yes.

I even have a "top secret" idea to give an alu mast the same behaviour (specs) as a carbon mast for only a fraction of the cost. Although producing an alu mast as a one-off is never cheap. It is the series production that really makes alu mast inexpensive.

How much are you interested in doing some experimental work ? (a retorical question off course)

Wouter

Hi,

would appreciate if anyone has an image or (better) drawing from the Capricon F18 or Taipan 5.7 section.

Is the wall thickness also 1.6 mm and consist of two reinforcement 'noses' like the Taipan 4.9 Superwing section?

Appreciating any feedback!

Thanks

I have a cut-off of that section here at home. I was going to post its data and a picture of it to you soon.

Wouter

cold & foggy

That is why I am moving to Fla. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> They sail all year round and LOTS of races!!!! can't wait. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Doug

Hi dirk

whaooo looking COOOOL this big SC 6.5
whatabout the all upweight now ?
Nice to see you still have the 'bastler' drive .....

should be time to introduce the A cat to china now?

what about setting up a high-tech-but-low-cost china produced acat like the blade runner moth ?
u know how to contact me....

Pieterjan.

hi PJ, great to read you here...
all upweight? better don't ask! too heavy, at5 least that's what my back tells me when lifting the boat to get the trolley under, haha...

yep, miss the A and sadly missed the worlds in Florida. must have been awesome. love what ben hall showed up with... my little tuning of the SC looks really minor compared to that, haha

yep, labour is cheap but craftmanship is bad too. you better stay besides the workers and control ever single step, otherwise you will end up with surprises... encountered some with my SC...

but if you get it right, things can still be cheap locally. export and taxes are a different story. bladerider therefore seems quite pricy but still was interested in a local build bladerider but the best they could come up with was the AUS$ and suggesting I should convert it to RMB!!! good joke. anyhow, whatever you build here, it would be for export... China isn't into sailing yet and in near future...

hope all is fine in NL! by the way, how did your ORMA style curved daggerboards turn out?

Dirk,
in Italy we have a mast profile similar to the capri one, same dimension but 15% more weight (and resistance) we have also a joint to make it 1n two pieces
Emanuele
Mattia Italy

hi Dirk

well, I wasn't too sure of the curved boards my self, so this year I bought a new MK 2 egner platform with straight, canted boards.
The boat itself is really good , for me( 84 kgs ), defitely better then the mk1 in a breeze and solid like a rock with high mod carbon beams .

But the results were less then on my old boat with the curved boards ..... Difficult to say if the boards bring something , but it looks faster, so it feels faster, so it is faster .....
I am just thinking of building two new bananaboards fo the mk2 this winter.
ughf, then I have to put the jigsaw in the new flyer 2 for the new daggerboard cases . I need to find some courage to do that ....

Small technical point what I have to figure out is the optimal angle of the boards . My mk 1 flyer had the radius 1800 mm boards in the straightdaggerboard case.
If I replace the canted daggerboardcase from the mk2 by new one the boards are quite extreme canted in .... ( just meeting the 1500 mm rule) Nils bunkenburg's new boat has 1500 mm radius boards, under that extreme angle...
But Nils was not really as flashy as normal this season , but again , difficult to say if that has to do with the boards...


i keep you updated!

PJ

It's neither the challenging sail of one's lifetime nor anything one hasn't seen elswhere many times. Its raw and unedited and youtube compression is quite a drawback quality wise. After all it's the start of the sailing season for some desperate Expats on a cold but sunny day on a pretty cold lake somewhere outside of Shanghai who just seemed to have bought a camera... But well, we LOVED it and for those curious, there are even a few seconds featuring the modified SC6.5 cruising along... so enjoy, but don't complain you haven't been warned!!! ;-)


http://www.youtube.com/v/QOQuK-xaS9Y