hahaha hilarious.
who told you that hoop?
i just bought a house, unlikely that i bought a 14' if someone wants to give me one i won't say no though....

strange, that is my last name....
but yep isn't me.
i'm putting my efforts into sailing on skandia in the syd-hob.

shouldnt you guys be using a phone for these conversations????????

shut up little gill.

well i ocean race here on an inglis 47. pimp myself to the relevant people and they become interested. skandia would be a nice boat to sail on. over in 2 days!

Could be .Do you know what boat he bought?

I did a training sesion with Rohan on Snappy the other week and the pest was there too. Those guys will both be pretty quick I reckon. More Grunt should be quick too.
What about you Vance ,When are you gonna make the move?

Got a new Beebe 2 on the way. First boat I've built and its taken about 3 times longer than I expected, but its looking pretty good.
Nice work getting onto Wild Thing.

Nice work Hosko. I had a ride teed up on it a couple of years back but had other things on at the end of Dec. A lot of people rip the **** out of Worro but I found him to be quite a nice guy

Seems all you need to do is ask the big boat guys over east and you will get a ride.

When's Tony's new boat coming over here? Are you doing Hammo on it?

Cheers

Interesting regarding twin rudders. I dont really know that it has helped Wild Side too much.

What's the idea of the twin rudders?

Hit the nail on the head Hosko

Port rudder is slightly tilted to port and starbard to starboard so when the boat has for example a 20 degree lean, the leward rudder is almost vertical. You get a great deal more control when you need it.

Only really works with beamy boats, as Hosko said open 60's as per the picture in the link


Also when the boat gets a bit of lean, there is less of the windward rudder in the water therefore reducing drag



http://www.sailinganarchy.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=44783

www.sailinganarchy.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=44789

Hope that explains it a bit

The problem with the Inglis designed boats, is that with a transom hung rudder, it already sits high in the water, when the boat gets a bit of lean up, you loose half of the traction from the rudder therefore it is easy to stall then wipe out.

yeah I did the Coventry race last year on Fast Forward, 2 of the best wipe outs. Leeward steering wheel was wet when we came back up.

Thats what happens when you pull up the biggest kite you can on a leg where 2 sail reaching would make you charge along