[MHml] Cat vs. Tri

[Roy Mills]

At 12:08 PM 11/3/06, you wrote:
>Stayed masts are just so 19th century, I just can't see the practicality
>in being so retro.

         OTOH trees have been unstayed cantilevers for quite a long 
time, so really its nothing new, just the recent invention of things 
like Carbon fibre that makes it possible to use that old stuff on 
sail boats. Stays from a wide base still make a mast lighter than a 
cantilever surely, just won't let the rig swing all the way around. I 
would have thought that a pacific proa could well use one stay up to 
windward, the rig could swing pretty close to 360 with appropriate 
hounds. Rob probably has reasons for not preferring that route, 
probably something to do with being, or rather not being, taken aback.

         In any event that J24 rig sounds pretty close to what I have 
been mulling over for my camperised C Class platform, so M. Dupree is 
obviously not far wrong. :-) ( Any relation to that chap 
Gabriel  from Montana Jesse?)

         Roy

         Roy


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