TA doesn't like doing things in half measures so hence his direct questions. Sailed with and against him plenty of times and he is quite competitive. Would be a welcome addition. F16 class should be glad he is still interested despite the wranglings on this forum the past few months. So, can someone buy his ol' Capricorn!!!
Welcome to the club Stephen,
Lets be by gones be by gones, agreed ?
You really should take Phill up on his offer for a talk and test sail.
With respect to weights I had a new experience today.
I had to get some welding done on a class 5 landyacht I'm rebuilding and the EU importer for VWM F16's helped me out.
I saw this new daggerboard design there and I really liked the new grey colouring, goes really well with the white hulls. He then asked if I wanted to see something impressive. Sure ! I said.
So he took this high aspect daggerboard (aspect ratio of 4 and less then 1.80 kg overall weight) and clamped it to low laying workbench, then he said ;
go stand on the very tip and jump up and down
. Now I'm 94 kg myself (207 lbs), that is excluding my shoes and cloths. I did but felt not secure enough to really give it a go. Then he himself showed me what I was supposed to do and I could see his 100 kg frame bounce up and down by more then 6 inches on the very tip of the board. I didn't hear any noises coming of the board, it just took this punishment in its stride.
Afterwards I held the daggerboard and it is indeed ludicrously light, straight and in one piece. I felt like I was holding a milkcarton in my hand.
He is thinking about making a test setup for potential buyers so they can do this test themselves.
I know the daggerboards can see some very high loading while sailing, but this is still a very impressive test. It would require a fully powered F16 (150 on traps) and a 2G corner to even match this loading.
Wouter
The cage is currently being cleaned.
As for being in the F16 forum... someone has to keep tabs on TikiPete and Timbo. Besides it's entertaining to yank Wouter's crank now and again.
As for being in the F16 forum... someone has to keep tabs on TikiPete and Timbo. Besides it's entertaining to yank Wouter's crank now and again.
CRANK YANKER ALERT!!!
Someone delete this guy!