[quote=tamumpower1][quote=martin_langhoff]> I’m not sure what you would update.
Modern bendy carbon rigs w laminate sails are tuned rather differently. Hull shapes. Endplating. Dyneema rigging. Apparent wind and downwind steering techniques have evolved (see Bethwaite's books). I dunno, I haven't read CRFT90s, but the state of play _has_ changed.[/quote]
"tuned rather differently" I'm assuming you can only mean a prebend rig which works on many traditional rigs with dacron sails as well. The book totally references depowering with the downhaul and mast rotation for a prebend rig. Mast and sail material dont specifically change that on their own. Not sure what evolution has happened regarding apparent wind. I own cat books all the way back to the 60-70s and all know that you use apparent wind when working downwind. Catamaran racing for the 90s even has a chapter about the wildthing and Randy Smyth has a chapter about how he sails an asym. spinnaker in there.
Other than that, I think it would be hard to add a whole book simply talking about the addition of why a flat bottomed boat can plane at speed and the advantages of a deck sweeper. I don't know what you would explain about dyneema rigging as well....it's smaller in diameter and cant corrode?
I think almost all the "advancements" in cat design, mostly surrounding the foiling A's, and F16/F18/N17 stuff wouldn't fit in a book meant to be a go to general purpose race book since there's so few people in those classes anyway. Everyone else is still racing the same boats the book from the 90's specifically references ya know.
And realistically, the Olympic level trainers and coaches that could add a lot of speed tips into a book regarding the modern boats seem to be more concerned with charging thousands of dollars for day seminars than putting the same information into easy to read books for 20 bucks a pop.[/quote]
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