Sail Area?
Sail Area?
The database states that the sail area on the Jollyboat is 13.9 sq m whilst the Hornet is 15 sq m. Surely that cannot be right?
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Re: Sail Area?
In old books, I have the JB as 14.88 (160 sqft) and the Hornet as 12.91 (139), but the Hornet spinnaker less than 1/2 the size. It may also be that the full jib overlap isn't measured in the JB.
Rupert
Re: Sail Area?
1989 "popular sailing dinghies" gives the hornet as 140sq ft/13.02sq m, and the same again for the spinnaker. 1997 "dinghy & dayboat directory" gives 161sq ft/ 15sqm for main and jib with 132 sq ft/12.3 sq m for spinnaker. Jollyboat isn't in either.
Re: Sail Area?
Burrett (1974) offers:
Hornet 11.24sqm and with genoa 12.91sqm, spinny 7.9sqm;
Jollyboat 14.86sqm, spinny 18.58sqm
My copy of Dinghy & Dayboat Directory also gives the Hornet as 15sqm with a 12.3sqm spinny so I expect both changed the rules over the years but it is shades of the ebay tape measure
Hornet 11.24sqm and with genoa 12.91sqm, spinny 7.9sqm;
Jollyboat 14.86sqm, spinny 18.58sqm
My copy of Dinghy & Dayboat Directory also gives the Hornet as 15sqm with a 12.3sqm spinny so I expect both changed the rules over the years but it is shades of the ebay tape measure
(Half Cut and What a Lark Removals Ltd)
Re: Sail Area?
I've always had the impression that the ebay tape measure is an instrument of precision compared to the methods used to estimate sail area in the 60s and 70s.Pat wrote:shades of the ebay tape measure :-)