I too had a good Sunday's Drive out on the Strip. The Mongrel Mob don't work on the Lords Sabeth[}:)].


Well I admit it isn't a record breaker but it is a start and I finished up with 4.77gb of video files which I managed to make a short film which I can't upload into you tube. Ah Well!
Ron

Hi there,

FISLY Mini Yachts will be one of the racing Class adopted in Italy. Some sailors here are starting to build or modify their yacht to fit in.

I wish to know:
- how to apply the 5.60 rule, if there's a precise way for measurement
- is a Seagull Standart' like mast (circular mast plus cambers in the zip pocket) allowed? Someone think about a wing section only looking at a Class 2 or 3 yacht...

I've tried to summarize MY rules here ruotenelvento.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/che-cose-un-miniyacht/ I hope I got it right, any suggestion very welcome.

Thank you

Cheers - Enrico

in the last couple of weeks Ive been chopping up some windsurfer sails after not having the right sail on a realllly windy, perfect salt day.
most of them started life as surf sails in the 4-5.5m range, these sails tend to have a very similar profile,luffcurve anddepth to the sails we would call a "landyacht sail"
the biggest is only a 2.5m down to a 2.0m
I tried to make sails that needed a short mast and a longer boom, the theory being to have less heeling force , but still get some accelarating power from the long foot. here are the results

a 2.5m stormy from a 5.5m Picasso. the picassos are great recutters, even when making bigger4-4.5m sails. sail sits on a 3.6m cut down RothoWave mast

a 2.4m stormy from a JP? surf sail of around6.5m. again no recutting of the luff, but a mast was made up from an old early carbon 1 piece. the mast only measures in at 3150mm ( add150mm for a regular mini) also quite long in the foot, no flappy bits and battens that tension with an allen key, really stiff carbon tube type battens


Atiny 2m cut from a 4m stuart bell surf sail. stiff carbon battens but only webbing tensioners. shorter in the foot and using that 3150mm carbon mast

finally a 2m from a torn neil pride RAFof about 5.5m. simply made by slicing off the bottom of the sail at the luffpocket hole , and adding reinforcing at the clew and tack