The C-cat only really has about 7 rules: 1. Must be a Catamaran symetrical about the center line of the boat 2. not more than 25' long 3. Not...
Ad Hoc, if we are however to have that conversation might I suggest we keep it over at the LAC thread, so that this thread may stay on topic with...
Well as an ongoing competitive team we are not in a rush to dump all of our data out there for all of our competitors or would be competitors to...
The limitations of the experiment were pretty straight forward, they were the class rules of the C-class cats. The only difference between the...
Look for wider boats and you'll find them. even on a small cat my skipper hands off the helm to me from time to time so he can deal with other...
Victor, to start for your main element section something like a NACA 0018 up to a NACA 0022 will work fine. For a flap a NACA 0009 will also work...
Nobody "leaves" the helm for 5 seconds, the tactician usually leads the team across the boat to the far side, the helmsman initiates the turn,...
You've got some good hate on for the Oracle guys don't you? Sure Valencia was dead, nobody, the teams included even knew the event would be there...
Further to my comments above a few points. DL has cut and pasted quite a few comments of mine here. More often than not if I have comments on...
Grade A narcissist, thanks, as a narcissist I appreciate the attention. That having been said if you are going to slag me I would appreciate...
Well basically all sailing craft have foils of some kind or another, principally to counteract the forces of the sails. SR is just a very pure...
From wiki: The term "hydrofoil" is commonly used for the wing-like structure mounted on struts below the hull of a variety of boats (see...
It only needed to win two though Good times those were in Valencia Tom
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Nope, nothing to report. Martin dropped off the radar when I said "we don't mail out CAD plans of our boats". Seems some people don't like to do...
Not if I have anything to do with it!
"As such, if they get little interest from "the outside world" it might not be a big deal. " I would also contest your "Little interest from.."...
Well for the teams outside of Canada Sponsorship is a big deal, they need money to make the wheels turn for their teams. No two ways about it....
Super, look forward to some collectiove moderately objective anaylsis. Good work all rou nd Martin
Doug, I respect the man and what he is trying to do, but if it barks, well..... it barks..... and that may well change in the future, I genuinely...
