Rob and Steinar,

  It's absolutely beautiful. 

  The cutaway stills and video help -- I originally didn't understand how the bunks were extending under the cockpit seats from the original VR renders.

  I hear the comments on limited headroom inside, but I personally wouldn't change a thing.  It looks like there's plenty of seated headroom in the saloon (mannequins will eventually confirm or refute this), and standing headroom in the galley and head.

  Adding another few feet of height would significantly affect the weight, and more importantly, the windward performance. 

  It would also take away the ability to lean against the cockpit seatback, rest one's arm upon the cabin roof, and feel the wind in one's hair while looking forward or even to windward.  In my world, one simply must have the ability to lounge and sail at the same time on beautiful lazy summer days. There will always be times for exciting bugs-in-your-teeth sailing, which is great, as long as lazy sailing is an option. 

  This would be the highest-performance, lightest-weight, lowest-windage, most-seaworthy, simplest, fewest-parts-to-fail, largest cruisable-trailerable in existence. 

  I get why people, including my family, like the C50. 

  But my family won't have to come up with the $6,000/year it would take to store it in Maine, and we'll be daysailing 80% of the time anyway, so the luxury would be wasted on us.  While the larger Harry's are great boats, I can't give up my fascination with the EX40's performance and trailerability.

        - Mike

Rob Denney harryproa@gmail.com [harryproa] wrote on 10/22/2019 8:34 PM:

Eric, try http://harryproa.com/?p=994

Luc,

Good idea.  Steinar is currently trying to raise the temperature in his drafty shed from 0 to 25C so he can infuse his beams before temperatures hit sub zero.  Once he has done this, we will have time to include the mannequins.

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