A Catamaran Flying a Hull Ho Hum Not Really

09.52 in a, Boat Plans, catamaran, flying, ho, hull, hum, not, really

At first glance, the following video of a catamaran flying a hull, with the crew stacked on wings, looks ordinary enough. Then you realize the wind is maybe two knots max! And then you realize the upwind headsail covers the span of the whole cat, from the bowsprit to the back corner of the transom! Thats one way to get a ton of light air horsepower and jack up the VMG

This is one of the Swiss Lake classes, the M2 catamaran class which is the smaller cat class (there is the large M1 class).



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Daggerboard Hum Loud!

19.57 in Boat Plans, daggerboard, hum, loud

Sometimes when dinghies go fast they sing to you, as is the case in this video of a 14 Javelin class at speed on a long spinnaker reach. Originally designed by John Spencer of New Zealand as a follow-on to his 12 Cherub, the Javelin is a development skiff design, single trapeze with a moderate rig. The Javelin remains an Antipodean class, raced in Australia and New Zealand.

Yee-Ha!

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