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Old 07-02-2010, 12:30 PM
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Americas Cup 34-Monohull Proposal

Here is a fairly detailed proposal-it will be a canting keel yacht! (see the "Multihulls forum" for that proposal)


Monohull & Multihull
High-performance and close racing
Light to strong wind range capability
Ease of shipping & transportation
22m max overall Length
"green" engines legal

Monohull
1.0 x wind speed upwind performance
1.4 x wind speed downwind performance
Narrow displacement range
Combination of bow and twin rudders allowed
Bowsprit
Unlimited gennaker area
13 crew
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Old 07-03-2010, 07:14 AM
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CBTF legal-never thought I'd see the day! But I don't think this rule goes far enough....Go with multies this time!

Now this would get my interest:
(click on image and then on resulting image for largest and most spectacular view)
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Old 07-06-2010, 02:52 PM
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Canting Keels

Here are some interesting illustrations:

Click on both images-click on the left image twice:
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