[PUP] Design Contest

[Sonaia Maryon-Davis]

Dear Peter,
I had heard of Randy Repass's boat and he's on the right track.  My only
criticism is that the sails are not wrap around but on a track up the back
of the mast.  When I was building Freedoms, we tested the rig and discovered
that the wrap around sail enabled us to get a shape like the section of a
wing of a plane and that was the secret to Freedoms going much faster than
hull speed.  The then Sales Director of Fairways, Anton Emmerton who later
founded Fleming with Tony Fleming, sailed a Freedom 35 (33ft) from Salford
in the Southwest of England to the Hamble (Southampton) at an average speed
of 9.4 knots reaching all the way. The same model won every race of the
Solent  race series.  I had a delivery skipper bring my 35 from Largs
(Glasgow) to the Costa del Sol and when he stepped on shore he told me that
the boat was truly amazing.  He had averaged over 8 knots in not very
favourable winds.  The Freedom 40 that convinced Rob & Naomi James with
10-12 knots reaching in 20 knots of wind swallowed a bigger Swan like it was
standing still at 7.5 knots in the same wind.  The second generation Freedom
(US design) went to the tracked sail like Convergence and lost the reaching
speed advantage.

Sonaia sends her best wishes!  How's your Nordhavn behaving?

Best, Chris


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Peter Sheppard
<Peter at petersheppard.com.au>wrote:

> Dear Chris
>
> The cruising pilot house sailing boat you describe almost fits the
> description of Randy Repass's boat - Convergence.
> Randy is the founder and chairman of West Marine, and was on the pick
> alongside me recently at Thomas Island in the Whitsunday group in Oz.
> I had an opportunity to go aboard and being an old stick and rag man
> thought she was an absolute knockout.
> Have a look at
> http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/DisplayPageView?stor
> eId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&page=Convergence&sect=home<http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/DisplayPageView?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&page=Convergence&sect=home>
>
> This is surely the best rag boat you could imagine for a cruising
> couple, and he and his wife Sally Christine are demonstrating this by
> what they are doing and where they are now.
> Best regards to Sonaia
> Peter Sheppard N55#38
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