Ny GP26 lanserad - kul leksak dagens kvartstonnare?

Designern kommentarer;
Some designer comments from Fred Barrett: Robert wanted a small racing yacht that would be exciting, competitive and challenging and after some to and fro with other small design classes the GP26 box rule was chosen as the path to pursue. Within Sydney and indeed much of Australia the ‘Sports-boat’ concept is king, enjoying success as an Australian class of racing. Robert wanted something a bit different and not a trailerable ‘sports-boat’. The typical geometry of the GP26 class and that of a sport-boat of similar length is very similar, the key difference being the sport-boat would carry another 20% of upwind sail area and as much as 50% more downwind.

Given the design would be targeted towards Sydney conditions (light, moderate and windy) we developed a reasonably large field of candidate canoe bodies for comparison, with the usual suspects of BWL, Righting moment, canoe body draft, wetted area, prismatic etc. all being looked at and tweaked to what we anticipated would be a good stab at a first generation design. We felt we needed a boat suited for moderate air, basically splitting the difference with the yearly conditions to allow the design to be all-round and well-behaved.