Spi for Stingray

why not ! give us a few pics to looky look at though just in case you cannot. My mast on my M6.0 is 31 feet how these 18 are doing this at 32ft I always thought they were smaller overall.?

Why bother with the hassle of a symetrical kite? I suspect it will actually slow your down. There are enough f18s in Aus that someone should be able to sell you an old kite pretty cheap. The rest of the set up is easy.

Thanks for both the replys my old stingray had the small rig 30ft heavier hulls especially at the end of the day the new one is 32 ft much lighter hulls also thanks for the advice on the spi I wondered if it would be big enough I can probably use the bits and pieces of the 505 and look for an old spi. I will post pics at end of the project

Euro Stingray........ AUS built by the Cat Factory in Newcastle and exported to Belgium Euro dealer Austral Cobray. Both companies have now gone belly up and not many boats were produced. Drop Bear is still in OZ

Great photos steve can you tell me why drop bear only appears to have an A class sail on it the photos have only made me keener

Not an A sail, but the Euro Stingray main. Same sail area as the old Stingray, but higher aspect square top.

If you are looking at converting, chase up a guy called Marcus Towell whome I believe sails at Adelaide SC and check out his Tornado (if he still has it) and his Blade F18 for ideas.

Great tips I'll chase him up, a guy in our club has just picked up a taipan with spi from what Ive seen of the setup It looks pretty easy to copy so Ill be able to compare
regards

here in south aus we have 2 stingarays with spi's they have tryed our f18 spi's they are two long in the luff. if you want contact victor harbour sailing club they have a web page to get photos and details THE SHADOW is one of the converted boats www.vhyc.org.au cheers

Good on you Danny! thats the sort of info I didnt want to find out the hard way. Your probably familiar with my boats Ive just parted with the old

Red boat

and have now taken on

Men Behaving Badly

. Im trying to stay relevant in the club now that a couple of the others have stepped up to bigger boats with spi's.
regards

Took the decks of the new boat today to discard the foam inside and decided to take the tape measure to the mast and worked out its only 30ft not 32ft sorry to mislead you can only blame it on the beer anybody got a really quick way to get rid of a pile of silicon. I am currently using acetone but with all the little nooks and cranies no way I can rub it all of, really need to disolve it then wipe it away
thanks in advance