SC19 boards
Posted: September 1st, 2019, 2:47 pm
I've been reading through the available materials, much of it the hyperbolic (yet highly entertaining) Boston Whaler marketing stuff. This leads me to ask a couple of questions about the SC19's boards.
First, they claimed that sailing it without boards (and with the blanks installed instead) results in a nominal performance sacrifice - they cite 4 degrees of weather performance lost. This is of acute interest to me, as I'm constantly hunting down new lakes, making the chances of bottoming out higher than average. Is this a realistic claim? I don't race, so holding a line i.e. drift is of less importance to me than many, but I'd like to know whether in the real world raising the boards to windward is going to make it sail like crap.
The other thing BW repeatedly mentioned was the "NASA Series 63 foil" shape. Should that actually be "NACA"?
First, they claimed that sailing it without boards (and with the blanks installed instead) results in a nominal performance sacrifice - they cite 4 degrees of weather performance lost. This is of acute interest to me, as I'm constantly hunting down new lakes, making the chances of bottoming out higher than average. Is this a realistic claim? I don't race, so holding a line i.e. drift is of less importance to me than many, but I'd like to know whether in the real world raising the boards to windward is going to make it sail like crap.
The other thing BW repeatedly mentioned was the "NASA Series 63 foil" shape. Should that actually be "NACA"?