New ISAF youth Boat selected the SL 16 and ...

New ISAF youth Boat selected teh SL 16 and it is F16 compliant. It even looks alot like the F16's, just a pitty about that 153 kg ready to sail weight though. I still can't get over the fact that my 1975 Prindle 16 weighted 135 kg and would weight 140 kg incl a spi kit.

here is some additional info from the main forum :

It is not yet a done deal, but here's the report from the ISAF web site:

In 1999, ISAF formally approved the inclusion of a multihull discipline at the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship from 2004 onwards.

In 2002, ISAF developed a criteria for builders to submit designs for the youth multihull, which led to a four-day trials in Quiberon, France in 2003, at which nine different designs from five builders were evaluated (including the Hobie 16 with added spinnaker).

The nine designs were eventually short listed to five, two, followed by a further process of assessment and evaluation which reduced the choice to two, including review of the production facilities, availability, distribution and price during 2004 by the Youth Multihull Evaluation working party chaired by Oliver Bovyn (FRA).

Olivier Bovyn (FRA) recommended the unanimous decision of the working party that the Sirena SL16 catamaran designed by Yves Loday be selected as the youth multihull for the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship. The ISAF Executive Committee supported the proposal and will make the same recommendation to the ISAF Council at the 2005 ISAF November Conference.

The Executive Committee recommendation will detail the Championship at which the class will be first introduced to replace the Hobie 16 and whether there will be alternative equipment for the multihull event, as is the case for the other youth events. Prior to use at the Youth Worlds, the SL16 will need to achieve ISAF Status. The SL16 is a twin-trapeze, three-sail multihull retailing at approximately EUR 11,000.

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Mary A. Wells

Mary, is this the Spitfire but with Skegs ?

Scooby_simon

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NO, it is not the Stream (spitfire with skegs) and that is a real pitty as that would have been so good for us F16's

It is this boat :

The specs are

Builder Sirena
sailplan : Main, jib, spi (asymm)
Skegs, no boom and what you see in the pic is black anodised aluminium, I don't expect carbon to be allowed anywhere.

Overall weight : 153 kg
Hull length : 4.81 mtr
width ; 2.32 mtr
mast : 8 mtr (alu extrusion)
Main sail ara ; 12.5 sq. mtr.
Jib area : 3.75 sq. mtr.
spi area : 17 sq. mtr. (with 75 % girth rule)

Texel/ISAF ratings about 115 to 118 (F18 are about 101-102 and H16 are about 116)

But I think the little boat is faster than this rating (That is why I designed to NMBR system to take out such errors)

It is the upgraded version of the KL15.5 - SL 15.5 ; The boat had a few name changes. The SL 15.5 is the boat that is show in that poupular French sailing DVD of a few weeks back. The youngsters are sailing that one. There is quite a bit of footage of that boat and it does sail quite well. My personal opinion is that it really is a REAL boat. The youths will appreciate that. And I expect it to be deceptively fast as well. That is when sailed at 110-125 kg. Two adults will not be thrilled by it.

I am just a little bit puzzled by the price though :

11.000 Euro's that is only 500 Euro's cheaper than a fully fitted Stealth F16 with a carbon mast. So much for keeping the boat simple to reduce costs. I fully expected this boat to be priced a little more attractively as adults will not really be draw to this design. And I don't see many 12 year old youngsters getting this baby for their birth day. On the other hand the European Hobie 16 wasn't priced cheaper as well.

Wouter

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here a translated text from France :

New catamaran young ISAF, the arlesienne!!! Veiled a selection of catamarans which in finished more! The ISAF has
lanched many months a contest in order to find a remplacement in Hobie cat 16 for the youth class of its championship
of the World. All the building sites have lanched new catas for being present at the trials: Spitfire and Stream,
the SL 16, Dart 16 sport, Hobie cat 16 spi and Hobie cat max, the KL Booster sport After many months, several commissions
and much of money designated the building sites out of prototype and developpement, it still does not have there?.
Last November, a commission ISAF met at Kopenhague retained in last choice Hobie cat max and SL 16. The SL 16 is a
derivative of the SL 15.5 (ex KL 15.5, youth boat to youth of 12 to 15 years of the FFV), the platform identical but
the rig is has more muscles. Yves Loday which is the architect of these two catamarans has entrusted construction to Sirena,
French building site (Warf). With the case wether the SL 16 would be retained by the ISAF, Yves Loday is linked to the
American building site Performance Cat and English Loday White Limited to ensure of it a world diffusion, and thus
prepare at best the world young person 2007 at San Diego. Thus the SL 16 could be builds by several building sites.

Waiting for the repsonse of the next commission?