Re: [bolger] One Design Racer -Intn'l Offshore Su
BO>Five meters is better and six is more like common sense. I would have one
BO>rule only beside the length. The boat must be turned upside down (180
BO>degree roll), fully loaded, sails up and ready to go, before the race
BO>starts. If it does not turn the right way up it does not start!
BO>Roger.
An excellent idea. Sticking in my mind is the visual image of a Vendee
GLobe racer upside down in the SOuthern Ocean with its keel waving in
the breeze. (And I don't mind earlier postings being apologtically rude
re AS29s. For those who are struck by the red onion syndrome on
confronting an AS29, I point out that my other boat is an aesthetic gem.
Horses for courses)
Tim & Flying Tadpole
BO>rule only beside the length. The boat must be turned upside down (180
BO>degree roll), fully loaded, sails up and ready to go, before the race
BO>starts. If it does not turn the right way up it does not start!
BO>Roger.
An excellent idea. Sticking in my mind is the visual image of a Vendee
GLobe racer upside down in the SOuthern Ocean with its keel waving in
the breeze. (And I don't mind earlier postings being apologtically rude
re AS29s. For those who are struck by the red onion syndrome on
confronting an AS29, I point out that my other boat is an aesthetic gem.
Horses for courses)
Tim & Flying Tadpole