Seattle IOM Update
December 2012 - February 2013
To share in the success of WK (West Kirby) with both Graham and Peter is something I will always remember after the work and lead up to the event. Graham and myself had a limited amount of tuning time prior to the event. Peter, living near 4 hours away chose to work his boat up locally. As things turned out we were all quick using my basic rake settings despite our own slight differences in sail trim through the full range of conditions.
Day 6 at 2011 Worlds in West Kirby with eventual winner Peter Stollery tweaking his vang just before an A Fleet heat. Notice how he protects the keel with his foot. Brad Gibson in the background finished second. Jerry Bower photo. Seattle MYC: I see familiar features in Britpop! from your earlier WIDGET “Mr. Brightside” (IOM World Champ ’07) and your GLAM ROCK. Both of which have both found their way to our area. For example: • The rigs appear very similar. Did you establish a static rake for those boats too? • The location of the sail winch in front of the mast accessed by a hatch and general sheeting configuration is the same. • All have Dave Creed designed/manufactured foils and bulbs. Brad Gibson: - With all boats I have sailed or set up since my skiff sailing days I have found it important to always determine and stick with a base static rake point - My own Disco IOM and Boogie/Anarchy RM designs used the RMG winch through the deck for ease of sheeting setup. As with the TS2 many years earlier, the Widget setup below deck gets the winch weight much lower in the boat without any of the concerns I held earlier about setup problems. A slight trade off but if your boat is dry then you rarely have to go down there! - With testing a hull design, so many make the mistake of throwing out the old for new. Sticking with a known component of what works is common sense. For instance: When I was first designing IOMs Gary Cameron’s TS2 design was the WC. It made sense to me to tick a simple box by using the TS2 fins so as to eliminate a variable in performance. As with Glam Rock/SKA/BritPOP, the
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