Let the Big Dog eat!

Anyone got full stats for it.

I'm guessing luff of the mainsail is around 155feet, anyone know area? Ditto Jib and Kite.

LOA is 143 feet?

Weight?

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I thought the LOA was only supposed to be 90 feet, and 90 feet wide.

It does look a bit different with the flat bottom hulls. Who designed it? And what about Alinghy? When is theirs going in the water?

According to the Front Page of SA, early next year.

Alinghi sure wants the stats! (seems they are not too confident that appeal will be upheld)...all of that information is not yet public. The deed says something like

as soon as possible

for the boat certificate to be delivered to the defender...it says something similar for the defender to do the same for the location the event is to be held - a feat which Alinghi has not yet performed either.

Alinghi Letter to GGYC Aug 22

LOL!!!! thats awesome!

Let me Paraphrase.... We want your stats! But you wont give them... even though your protest is baseless... and you dont deserve to race... waaaaaa

5oo sq meters for the main

I was curious after reading here so: I put the picture into my CAD package and scaled it to 90ft for the hulls. I had to put a white box in the picture to show where the back of the closest hull was. I do not know if the 90 is exactly accurate. You can see the scale on the bottom of the picture. Then I drew an area around the sail including the mast. I came up with 4004 Sq Ft. If that is accurate then in meters it is about 375 Sq Meters.

Later,
Dan

In musing over it I realized that the height of the sail is almost the same as the width of the football field (160 ft.). The bottom of the sail is 37.5 feet. So if you could take the play the length of the boom you would have a first down.

With the jib and the spinnaker flying you would have about 1/4 the area of the grid of a whole football field. That's a lot of cloth!

Later,
Dan

I think it is more like 157 feet, 5.76378 inches because that would equal 48 meters.

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After leaving the dock at 11am, the team first hoisted the 5,000 square foot (500 meters square) mainsail up the 158-foot (48-meter) carbon fiber mast towering above the trimaran.

click the video of it coming out of the shed for some video of it sailing

http://www.cammas-groupama.com/do/m... at=152&page=0&media=1988

There is also a good video of them training for -match racing- on two 60 foot tris.

The sails are similarly off the charts: a 5,000-square-foot mainsail; a 3,500-square-foot headsail; and 7,000-square-foot gennaker.

100 ft long main (90 at waterline) and 90 by 90 on the outside. just what they said 90 x 90

Ok TJP,

What up with using my pre-cooler pic for your avatar?