tonystott wrote:
Otherwise, I think Pete is looking for someone to carry out wind-tunnel tests... Pete, can I suggest that you would have way more fun adding the Hobie spin kit to your AI rather than mucking around buying a TI mast. Stringy already has a TI, so he didn't face the considerable cost of buying a TI mast and sail.
My gut says you are correct - especially since, as has been noted, the spin kit does not affect rigging/de-rigging time.
But my head says that the TI sail is still attractive because it maintains simplicity and can be used upwind as well as reaching.
Also, an 18" mast tip extension would probably reduce the cost to the same as or less than the cost of a SpinKit...... Used to do that all the time with windsurfer masts until the industry went over to base extensions.
One reservation I have is that perhaps the turn or two of reefing that would be used with a TI sail much of the time might degrade it's already-modest upwind performance. ..... I guess I need to run some SpeedPuck/Compass tests to see what a turn or two of reefing does to my AI sail's upwind ability - not that it's a huge deal with me, who seldom has to get anywhere specific.
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