Hi Ade,
you are welcome to a go, It would probably be better to try it with Joe not me.
I had not considered a 2 piece mast. It is certainly feasible but as we leave the diamonds on I doubt that there would be much benefit, except when trying to fit it in the shed for finishing in the middle of a global warming aberration.
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Hi Neil,
It is a very long time since I sailed a Moth, I am sure that Alex's uni cycling skills will be more useful than my distant past.
I am hoping that the design is going to be easier to sail than some of the other new boats. I think that the solid wings will give more options on where to put our weight, and because we do not have as much worry about them hitting the water they are slightly lower.
This should make it easier to get up the high side, the COG is lower, it will heel further before it topples. When a wing hits the water at low speed it will not sink as fast, getting in after a capsize should be slightly easier.
The boat does have very slightly more rocker, 67mm total. I believe that this is the same as Ronin, and sailing against them we never saw that they had any issues with early planing or top end performance.
It is my intention to make a design that is light weather orientated. 1 minute in a light weather race is usually worth a more places than 1 minute in a race when its blowing 20kts.
The design with the lowest PY will not necessarily be the regatta winner.
I have always had a weakness in light winds and Alex's is already showing a reluctance to get out of bed if he cannot hear the wind rattling the windows.
It felt wrong last year sailing Subtle Knife that a RS200 would beat us upwind in the light but in 5kts more wind and we would lap it.
The bow entry angle is the same as an E5, and probably an E6/7 however the max chine beam is slight further forward.
Whilst the chines are slightly higher, and the sections rounder. I hope that it is not going to be any less stable than the other current designs.
It would be possible to build a much trickier but faster boat within our rules.
I also hope that the rounder sections will be more tolerant of inaccurate trim. We certainly saw this in I14s, and it made boats that you knew were slower very difficult to beat.
A boat with more rocker will be more stable in pitch and that this will allow us to run with slightly more T foil lift and offset the drag that the extra rocker has at higher speeds whilst hopefully reaping the benefits at lower speeds.
Whilst the rocker is higher by Cherub standards it is still very low compared with any other boat that I have been involved with.
Clive
