[MHml] Bi plane rigs.

[Roy Mills]

At 07:22 PM 9/3/06, you wrote:
>G'day,
>    Only one hull will need to be beefed up, your
>rigging costs will halve.
>
>It will look weird (suspect you are not too concerned about this), and be a
>little harder (though much quicker) to rig.  It will have a higher coe, but
>the mast will be more flexible, so not such a big problem, and will have
>much better light air performance, be half as hard to sail, with no
>reaching/blanketing  problems.
>
>If this makes sense to you (it obviously doesn't to most people), we can
>discuss how heavy it is having two daggerboards, and how draggy daggerboard
>slots are.  ;-)

         It seems to me Rob that you are cunningly gravitating the 
discussion towards the idea of the original rig in an original hull 
with accommodation in the other hull, which since it is the wrong 
shape to provide much in the way of comfort should be replaced with 
something that does, and, voila -  a tacking Harry type outrigger. 
There may well be all the reasons which you mention in favour of such 
a device, but right now it just does not grab me. The boat has to be 
simple to modify from what is, time is of the essence and I do not 
put in 14 hour days any more, at least not 14 hours of steady work, 
14 hours including naps maybe. I do agree that it is less time to 
build one longer mast than 2 shorter ones, following that path I 
should just leave everything as a standard C Class with a boom tent 
and a primus, and take along a crew member to help put the mast up, 
yet an original requirement was to be able to do everything myself 
and that stays pretty central. So I will keep plodding along in that 
direction and will leave rig decisions until later.

>regards,
>
>Rob

         Cheers Roy