DrogueOne said..julesmoto said..A few interesting features on this one!
Wouldn't fancy sailing it back to OZ tho. Shame the outboard retracting mechanism isn't pictured.
www.miamiecho.net Very interesting, thanks for posting. You can see one outboard in this pic, looks like a track that it slides forward on. Seems to be pretty well thought out and designed for a purpose without compromise. The keel retaction mechanism is massive, be interested in seeing how that works also. Pity he didn't list the PHRF number, would give an indication of how it goes.
There's an old PHRF listing of it at 90 or 96; it's a bit confusing.
That's surprisingly slow; a J/35 is around 72, Beneteau 36.7 is around 78, Benny 40.7 around 54. So it seems she's a 40 that's about as fast as a Northshore 38 and slower than a Farr 11.6, Benny 36.7 etc.
The difference between using a spinnaker or not is normally around 18 seconds per mile, which doesn't make a huge difference, and Googling the old owner's name indicates that he was a hot sailor, so it's possible that this was an experiment that didn't really work out as far as creating outstanding speed.
