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I don't quite know what to make of this. Basically a Laser, but different.
It's a monomaran!
Looks like a highly polished Hobie Wave (or old Hobie 13) to me!
Hobie 12?
Looks more like a fiberglass version of the Hobie Bravo...on steriods.
It's a Vortex, a version of the Laser. I was just wondering what everyone thought about the idea.
I'm guessing most of these guys are trying it out for the first time? Lots of swimming going on in the video and picts!
I loved the pitch poles in the Video. I could see that comeing a mile away, but I'm guessing those guys haven't had been to 'submarine school' like most of us spinnaker cat sailors have!
Looks like it will be fast once they figure out how to sail it downwind with the kite.
I was thinking about that funny looking snout, what it would do to pointing ability. Also, if you put a solid deck like that on one of our boats does it make it stiffer? (Macca's getting to me)
It seems to me that the Vortex has very little buoyancy in the bows, and the hard deck acts as a hydro-break once it is in the water... I'm not a boat designer, but it seems to me that they either need to add some buoyancy to the bows, move that deck back further so it doesn't stuff in the waves, and/or trap further aft to keep the bow up.
Or put two cross beams on the hulls and all call it a catamaran.
Or put two cross beams on the hulls and all call it a catamaran.
That's just crazy talk.