Do you mean Jim Pugh? http://www.reichel-pugh.com/
Hi Doug, Pictures of Puma's boards are here......
Hi Doug, A curved board moving vertically in a trunk is going to rotate, doesn't matter how much. Curved boards is exactly what they are trying...
Hi Doug, "You're not saying that the retraction of a curved foil causes rotation or twisting, are you" I am not saying that, Geometry is. "I...
Hi Doug, you noted 6.2.4 correctly but missed: 6.2.1 "Daggerboards shall retract and extend only and shall not be designed to twist or rotate...
To answer your original question, the VO70 rule precludes the use of curved foils however you will see at least one of those boats with the foils...
I use these roosters: http://www.eastcoastinteriorsinc.com/
Try Simon Rogers at Rogers Yacht Design. Artemis has interceptors and he is a nice fella.
Rich is an honest dude, I have been dealing with him for quite a while. He delivers what he says he will which is very often not the case...
Not for a Vendee or a Volvo boat, but I once built a 70,000 USD custom carbon toilet...
Call Rich O'Meara Core Composites www.corecomposites.com Newport, RI 401 846 6008 He will definitely have the balsa and the glass.
Where is your copy of "Confederacy of Dunces"? Man, I miss the crescent city...
J/V was slated to design Peter DeRidder's Mean Machine VO70 but the team never got sponsorship. I would have liked to have seen what Rolf came up...