FoilTown

For a while now I’ve had two Mistresses on the go having not managed to sell the old one. Now I know that it’s normal that every year or two one should find a new younger and slimmer mistress. However I’ve had a change of heart. I’ve decided to give give the old girl another go. Assuming she agrees to a bit of surgery to bring her up to standard.
My older boat, Goose, has removable wing bars while Road Runner has fixed wing bars. So it makes more sense to take Goose to the Worlds as she packs into a box more easily. I got a new set of foils for Road Runner at the end of the summer from Mike Cooke and I’ve been very happy with how the boat has sailed since. What I decided to do was to fit Road Runners foils to Goose and go racing. The main differences will be the daggerboard case is further forward on Road Runner. However the position on Goose is only 9cm behind a Ninja so it should not be too much of a problem. Road Runner was built with a wing mast in mind and ended up a few kilos heavier. Also there has been a bit too much friction in the wand system on Road Runner so while I was fitting the foils to Goose I spent extra time removing all this friction. I’m confident that Goose should end up being as fast as the Road Runner with the current setup especially as i have a skinny mast and new sail on the way.