jeez, from art collecting to asking the designer whether he can make the HP tack for around the can racing! I think there is a bit of bi-polar here. But the suggestion of kitting these boats is worth following through one day. Unlike kit aircraft and cars, yachts do not have to have engines, props, gearboxes, landing gear, running gear, steering arrangements, braking, pushrods, cables, and neither do they have to be within 1 mm tolerance or less. Once Proa design is set, you could probably make a kit of 40 large parts. You could also possibly adopt the "builder assist" concept, where the builder pays for and picks up his parts, stays at the factory and under supervision builds and leaves in three weeks time- all at a reasonably modest fee.
Chris Hamilton
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 5:35 PM, doha720@yahoo.co.uk [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
Hi,
I don't know which sort of races we are talking about. Cutting edge AC or local amateur club type.
But I think you can shunt HP's pretty quickly.
It would make little diff as long as the legs were not real short.
I always sailed my El solo and so I had a few things to do to shunt. Two sets of sheets, one rudder pull up and then move to opposite side and pull other rudder (new aft on) down.
With a crew of two it could be a very simple slick operation. Someone can be getting sheets pulled in nice and quick and basically the time it takes to do that is how long between moving one way and then moving off on new tack (shunt)
Especially if both rudders stay down.
So for average Joe should be no draw back here.
Doug
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