Upside down.
Here is a picture of Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada winning the ISAF Sailing World Championship in the Star Class (scanned from "Starlights"). Not sure if this is is a Hyde or not... but I'm guessing he is using those inflatable battens...
3DL G-string sails of pure unobtainum fiber?
Hi Wavedancer,
thanks for your reply, I did my sums and you save about $400au dollars, I guess I am concerned that the sail will be flogged out shape after seeing the pictures of the sails in these post, being a novice and and not having a legal sail and thought this would be a good way.
"Shrugs"
regards
Jason
Everyone at my the frostbite series says i should try fulls. However, I dont have $600 to spend on a new rig.
Tracy, thanks for the reply. First I didn't mean to imply that Harken does make sails. Secondly what I did mean is that the sail issue has one that should have been addressed long ago and should be the issue which has been in the development stage for some time.
I realize all can be done on one ballot but what's the likelihood of that happening? The sail issue is far from resolved, honestly it will probably be another 5 years before we see anything in the way of motion for change.
If we are really going to be productive about this, might I suggest we TOTALLY revisit the sail material? You can totally laugh at me, but I would love to see some sort of mylar / kevlar type sail, similar to what they use on the Megabyte. Although these sails would likely cost marginally more, they would last SOOOOO much longer (read: actually cheaper for local racers over a couple seasons).... I would suggest not changing the actual draft / etc.
I posted a pic of a sail that someone had made, exactly what you wanted. It was gunned down.