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The rig could be called a cutter. I don't care for high-clewed headsails. I like the clew to be where I can reach it from the deck without too much effort. Cutter rigs with high-clewed yankees end up being sailed without the staysail and the high clew leaves a big hole between the yankee and the mainsail. The high-clewed geometry of the yankee also puts the center of pressure too high, where it will add too much heeling moment for the drive produced. I have drawn lots of cutters and I have found that over a couple of seasons, most owners gravitate to a sloop-style sail inventory. The SA/D for this cutter is 20.74. Mr. Frank is relying upon the Hood

The swept semifull keel with attached rudder is certainly vintage.
This shape should go to weather nicely but may be a bit cranky
when hard pressed off the wind.

furling systems to control both jibs and mainsail. The biggest headsail carried will be a I 10-percent genoa.

I like the way the designer says, "My proposed yacht may be too narrow, too deep and too high an aspect ratio in her sailplan to please the general market." The designer has given us a deep and slack bilges in wineglass section shape. The swept semifull keel with attached rudder is certainly vintage. This shape should go to weather nicely but may be a bit cranky when hard pressed off the wind. I raced on a very similar boat when I was young and we would regularly roll both rails under in a blow downwind. All you could do was hang on. This design has an old meter-boat look to its lines. The D/L is 319.

Here's the dilemma I see when faced with the challenge of creating a vintage-styled yacht. You need overhangs to pull off the look. The sectional shapes that we know work well by today's standards just don't go hand in

I like this boat a lot. I would just like to see the vintage look combined
with a more up-do- date approach to what makes a boat go fast.

hand with long graceful overhangs. The old adage that as you heel you immerse the overhangs and increase the sailing length of the boat is just not correct for this type of boat. In order to gain sailing length from heeling, you need to immerse enough hull volume in the ends to effectively increase the prismatic coefficient. Fine, drawn-out ends just drag across the surface of the water, increasing wetted surface.

So, don't look for pragmatic justification for building a classicly styled yacht. It has to be enough to step back into another time and enjoy a look and feel that is lost to most of us. There is no doubt in my mind that as you ghost into the quiet harbor, deep and snug in the tiny cockpit, that you can survey the assembled white, plastic fleet and know with certainty that you are the coolest guy in the bay.

I like this boat a lot. I would just like to see the vintage look combined with a more up-do-date approach to what makes a boat go fast.