Greg,
I am in agreement with everything, but that last part about same sails for NA.
(unless its the ones I have. :)
I dont have some old 49er sails laying around so I am going to buy some new
ones of what ever Bram decides is the fastest at the time I am ready to rig the
boat. Investing in used 49er sails would just be a waste of money since 3-6
months down the road I would want to buy some faster/better sails.
Also on another note. I am doing some vacuum bag testing today of smaller
parts. And hopefully I will be doing the deck next week. I will take pictures
/notes and provide a parts list. (If everything goes well.) Its not really
that expensive if you already have a medium sized air compressor. (About a $100
for equiptment, and probably the same for materials)
Christian/USA015
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Ryan <gregoryrryan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 3:09 pm
Subject: Taking Emmett's name in vain.
> Bram as you know I'm a fan of Emmett's philosophy. Let the shape
> settle down by itself. Allowing therefore a little jumpstart to the
> innovators (of the slightly fastest design) within the already
> adequately tight (IMHO) sail area/height/foot length restrictions.
> Bram your flat top design is probably the fastest but it sure would
> be good (to leave time) to be able to improve it marginally next
> season and after when there are enough identical boats to trial
> subtle changes. So I am wondering what is the hurry. What do people
> think? With respect to our commercial supplier, he should have no
> trouble making Swift sails better and certainly more durable than
> the Pride 49er cutdowns. It would help me though to know the cut
> down dimensions of the Pride 49er sails that you feel are the
> fastest (when you are satisfied but before the NA's). I do
> appreciate you freezing your *ss off for us all. :-)
> How about we voluntarily decide to have mains substantially similar
> for the first NA's as there won't be much time for most of us to
> play with it. (unless millionaire sail bums show up in the builders
> list).Greg
> Swift Solo -- Rose
> Appologies Emmett if I have misrepresented your sage advice on
> class development that have been posted elsewhere. GR
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BDally6107@xxxxxxx
> To: swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:10 PM
> Subject: bow profile and centerboard trunk
>
>
>
> Anyone who has started construction and has not received the new
> centerboard trunk or bow profile details (It should look like the
> attached pdf) should let me know and I'll mail them to you. In
> both cases they are template patterns and cannot be sent as pdf's.
>
> We're working hard to finish the rigging manual.
>
> We will be testing the last (hopefully) mainsail soon and that
> will wrap up the testing for the recommended sails. Remember, you
> can still cut down 49er sails and there's a lot of latitude in the
> cut of all of our sails. Hopefully, the current frenzy of
> technological design advances in sails will settle down soon.
> Perhaps we should discuss a timetable to tighten up our sail
> measurement rules at our first general membership. I think it
> would be a mistake to do it too early, however, I believe that it
> should be done eventually.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bram
>
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