Fila, b-rigg

Back in hometown. It is time to get back online after 12 days of sailing in Premantura, Croatia.
With me was my laser and Fila.
There were good 8 days of wind 6of them with b-rigg conditions. Sadly with no comparison i tried differend settings, ending up with a seemingly good setup nevertheless. The boat is pointing high, and sailing superbly balanced, nearly planning downwind, sailing at about 1.5 to 1.8 times of hull speed.
So now i am really ready to sail well in case of more wind on some of our national class races.

But better than the settings are speed measurments i collected putting my phone into fila, i will speak abou those in another post.
Also an idea for the next generation f5g(national class)boat is slowly taking shape.

Upwind, this is the basic setting i found, from here i give the sails more twist if the wind is in the upper range of the rigg

Sailing heeled, near the hullspeed(according to measurements) nothing special happens, with the future canting keel i hope to exceed the hullspeed upwind

The downwind, where much boat speed is to be gained, above just "shaking" the rudder to get the jib to the other side

Surfing the waves downwind

 

And jibing to get back upwind

The shots below show the boat sailing downwind, in upper wind range of the rigg, with a good setting, and lots of tension on the rigg even in waves nosedives were rare, but inbetween the waves the boat lacks lifting force.
It sails sort of low in the water, increasing wave an wetted surface drag like here:

Obviously a jib providing more lift is needed, in the future i will try something like on a footy.

The second thing is a forward t-foil rudder, the third is a canting keel wich will move, not only move side to side, but also tilt backwards.

That's all for now, i am happy with Fila,

the autum races are getting closer, and i am confident to continue the streak of wins on national regattas, and having lots of fun putting this boat into water wherever there is wind.