FDBULLETIN; NR 161, JANUARY 2014
INTERVIEW WITH .... by Ronald Stalman
Help me out: How you can become a World Champion in the FD ...
Enno; Just try a bit harder than anyone else. Ard : Make sure you learn every single race something to improve Is equipment important ...
Enno; yes it is important but I think that approx. 50% of the fleet has equipment that is good enough to win the Worlds Ard; Yes, make sure your material will not break during the race Talk us through your boat lay-out ...
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The boat layout is not so special, we try to keep the boat as simple as possible so that we can spend more time actually sailing instead of playing with the controls. The only two uncommon things are that we have the up haul for the spinnaker pole forward where the crew controls it and we have the extended gooseneck.
without that you have to look at it. In this way you also have a lot less maintenance as things wear less. It looks a lot like a standard Bogumill layout but there are several small but important differences
Why are parts, lines, cleats etc. placed where they are ...
Enno: We changed the angle of a few cleats as it was a bit difficult to get the ropes in the cleats while hiking but apart from that it is exactly the same as when we put it together.
Enno: The important thing is that everything works well, that lines do not rub over other lines and that lines go into the cleats
Is your boat lay out still the same as it was when you started in the current Bogumil ...
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