Saturday, June 22, 2013

Footy B-rigg

Yesterday the B-rigg was finished.
It has about 1080 sqcms of sail, and an aspect ratio of 2.1.
at the moment it works fine, the boat points well and gets up to max speed quickly when sailing upwind, tacks are super fast(becouse of the big rudder) but yet controlable. Downwind it was just a matter of reducing sail area. It needs no backstay as the mast is a hobbyking 4mm carbontube, it has  super thin walls, so it bends under gusts depowering the sail.
On this rigg no ballast on the boom is needed and the total weight of the rigg is 33g.
Here are a few pictures from the pond, when i find the time i'll post some better ones


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