Well, the iron law seems to bend a lot! For a start, the French shorthanded events aren't "the most famous regattas" in most places of the world...
I can't work out why scows are coming into fashion in anything outside classes that have big rigs and short overall length limits. Just take one...
Unfortunately no, not my quiver, I wish I had pics of any of them! I did sail a borrowed speed stick (wow!- But boy did they disappear fast) in...
...in close reaching to running speed is spectacular. Basically the scow bows mean the maximum length of the hull side is in the water making the...
But Skene is wrong. When overall length is the restricted factor, many boats with fine bows win races. Look at Moths - the last scow to win a...
[ATTACH] + Mini Transat 6.50 + Route du Rhum + Transcuadra + Jacques Vabre A handful of influential and trend-setting regattas ... have forged...
I can't agree with that. Look at the Minis and 40s - they are all boats with comparatively short hulls relative to their beam and SA. Take the...
Probably still wouldn't be drawn for a boat that isn't oriented towards downwind sailing with a big rig. The other thing is that the reason they...
[ATTACH] Decades from now people will see a sailboat with a bow in the style of the Mini Transat two posts above and say: -old fogey Haha And...
"To avoid Scow type hulls (as seen in the Mini Class), the maximum width, taken 1 m behind the bow, must not exceed 1.12 m" What are the criteria...
I couldn't agree more. Boats with small rigs are best with hulls with sharp ends. They have such limited power to push them through the water....
...very restrictive class rules) on mainly downwind courses so scow bows are not "an unstoppable trend" for most boats, especially ones with small...
Scow bows are best for going down wind. Since many races the mini sail in are predominately down wind, this design feature makes a lot of sense....
...inbalance". Is there an actual overall advantage in scow bows outside types with big rigs and limits on LOA? If you have a 6.5 boat like the...
[ATTACH] Ofcet 6.50 (2014-) There is a whole gradation possible within a large family, from 'wide-full' bows (such as this Ofcet 6.50) to...
Pram/scow bows are good for lift. I have seen a wall of sea rise above the stem anchor roller on a down wave surf on a pointy bow to where i was...
Back to monohulls to get perspective of multihulls. The inaugural Globe 40 race, is a testing circumnavigation for double-handed Class 40 teams...
Sailing keeps developing as we learn more. In 2022, 52 new Mini 6.50’s racing monohulls have been built. As you can be spending up to €150,000 for...
Scow bows have enjoyed a renaissance with 6.5 mono racing as far as I can ascertain more particularly downwind racing and I think that is their niche.
My thought is that scow bows are proving to work well on some monohulls at least in part because they allieviate some of the problems of hulls...
