Bill's question of the day: Why do H14s and H16s rake their
Posted: August 17th, 2013, 12:45 pm
Bills comment from another post:
"Relative to your first statement, question of the day: Why do H14s and H16s rake their masts so far back?"
I have heard many explanations, but the way it 'feels' to me on a Hobie is that it moves everything back on the boat. By that, the pivot point of the hulls is farther back and you tend to pitchpole less--but you have to sit farther forward or you will go over backwards and sailing at the back of the boat is very slow.
I have a feeling that it really has something to do with the bannana shape of the hulls and the lack of forward buoyancy.
I can tell you that they point MUCH better than with a straight mast, but downwind performance suffers.
The windurfers sail upwind with their sails pulled (raked) back very far, too.
"Relative to your first statement, question of the day: Why do H14s and H16s rake their masts so far back?"
I have heard many explanations, but the way it 'feels' to me on a Hobie is that it moves everything back on the boat. By that, the pivot point of the hulls is farther back and you tend to pitchpole less--but you have to sit farther forward or you will go over backwards and sailing at the back of the boat is very slow.
I have a feeling that it really has something to do with the bannana shape of the hulls and the lack of forward buoyancy.
I can tell you that they point MUCH better than with a straight mast, but downwind performance suffers.
The windurfers sail upwind with their sails pulled (raked) back very far, too.