fusioneng wrote:
Of course you could alway have a little bladder tank on each ama, then have a tilt able hose that you can lower to fill up the tank with your forward motion, the when you want it to drain tilt it either backwards so it's trailing or jus lift it out of the water and let gravity do the rest. However 50 lbs of water is a lot of water, we are talking a 5 gallon pail volume wise, that a lot. You could maybe use large diameter rubber tube so it would fill up like a water balloon, you can probably get a lot of water in a ten ft long 2" to 3" tube.
May add a dump valve at the back so you can drain quickly.
I actually thought thru all this stuff when I added all the extra sail area to my TI (260 sqft) because the AMA's no longer had enough flotation to keep the boat from flipping unless you hike out on the tramps. What I ended up doing instead was widened the boat by extending the AMA's by on foot on each side. Doesn't sound like much, but just that one foot wider doubles the capsize force, so now my boat is pretty much uncapsizable even with both my 33sqft jib and main full out in 15mph plus winds. Plus the AMA's no longer go under water at all, they just plane on top of the water creating very little drag (if any), the only seem to create a lot of drag when they are mostly submerged. Also because the AKA bars are mounted at an angle, when you move them out, the boat cruises with both AMA's completely out of the water.
This ended up being my most bang for the buck mod.
FE
Hi FE, how did you extend the AKAs? I bet there already a thread on that.
Thanks!
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