Video of relative performance of a box shaped OzRacer or Oz Goose compared with another small sailing dinghy of conventional shape
Hi Dave,
If wondering about laughs when the OzRacer is sailed against more conventional boats … maybe you need to see the video of the OzRacer sailing against a tender with a nutshell rig.
But more interesting is what happens in stronger wind
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The video is meant to produce a smile and a slight scratching of the head rather than a laugh.
The boats are, of course, designed for different purposes. However the other boat probably represents some aspect of “acceptable performance” for boats in this size range.
Rectangular boats can carry big sails in strong winds.
This is not truly strong, but you can see how the speed is quite different from the average 8ft dinghy. And the boat handles waves just fine.
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Several have been tempted to say it is pure sail area. But the OzRacer with the standard 89sq ft rig was happy sailing around with in 20 to 25knots unreefed. That is the stability of the hull playing out.
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/07/outings/record/index.htm
So the sail area is appropriate to the boat and part of the package that gives
the boat its range of performance.
The video is set up as a joke, but it is true too.
The other side is that while the OzRacer (with good sails and foils) is very
efficient up to around 5 or so knots it doesn’t have the high downwind speeds of raceboats of a similar length – with the OzRacer topping out at around 8 or 10 knots.
However this does feed back into the predictable handling of the OzRacer and OzGoose type.