Hardly used North 3DL’s 860M( 2 regattas only )
Mainsail 10850DPI – Luff 12.26m , Foot 4.50m
Medium Genoa – Luff 9.89m , Leech 9.64m , Foot 6.09m
Light Genoa – Luff 9.88m , Leech 9.60m , Foot 6.19m
Available in Lymington , £7500 for all three , will not separate .
Email Symon Wood – symonwood@aol.com
Javi Cela, the designer of Ginkgo Too, has introduced a new Six Metre design, so we asked him to tell us more:
The new Six Metre design was a development of some theory tested originally on Ginkgo Too.
Based on the evolution of the rating rule (Seaworthiness, the forgotten factor by CA Marchaj, and The six metre-100 years of Racing by Pekka Barck and Tim Street) I made a research on the “d” penalty to shape a lighter boat.
When starting this new design, in adition to the light displacement, I was looking for a different boat handling (more maneuverable, quick tacks, more settings), a very technical sportboat which can easily reach speeds above 10kt, atracting young sailors from other classes. Unsinkable, trailarable with a car, no runners and many more posible gears (code zero, genoa, jib, spi, gennaker).
The Six Metre history has been close to the 12 Metre class from 1958 to 1988, in fact the Six Metre was a bench test for some designs, but the scale factor has induced errors sometimes.
Some interest books were analysed for information (The 12 Metre Class by Luigi Lang & Dyer Jones, and the Comeback, my race for the Americas Cup by Dennis Conner, The Grand Gesture by Roger Vaughan, and some more).
When reviewing all 12 Metre designs, Ted Hood’s approach to designing Nefertiti (US 19) got my interest (Ted Hood, Through Hand and Eye, by Ted Hood and Michael Levitt).
She performed very well against the older 12 Metre boats, Columbia (US 16), designed by Olin Stephens, Weatherly (US 17), designed by Philip Rhodes and modified in 1962 by A.E. “Bill” Luders, and Easterner (US 18), designed by C. Raymond Hunt.
Hood produced a yacht with greater beam and less displacement. His idea was to build a yacht that was a platform to optimise the sail plan.
In this case, the size of the Six Metre allows the boat sailing in semiplaning condition at certain windspeeds, while the wetted surface reduction is beneficial in light wind condition.
Therefore the midwinds have to be worked to make her an all round competitive boat.
A massive study was made on the mast with the help of Chriss Mitchel and the sailplan was developed by Henrik Soderlund with the help of Albert Swaizwer.
To the date the boat has been sailed only a few days and the targets are very promising.
To find out more about this new design contact Javi on celajavi@hotmail.com
We are putting Georgia together, for the Worlds in September, and are really struggling to find some sails that will do the boat justice and wondered if any of the modern boats out there have some “nearly new” sails that they are retiring, as they prepare for the worlds. She hasn’t been given the chance to race for a few years now, and we hope we can give her a new lease of life with a few tweaks, here and there.
If anyone have any, particularly fore and aft sails, it would be fantastic if you could let us know and we can see how it could all work.
And very conscious that we all have different size sails, our certified measurements are below: If anyone can help us out with some sails, we can look at how we can get them to fit the boat.
A: 12.46
B: 4.672
I: 9.84
J: 3.429
Thank you so much, from all of us, for looking at this and hope to hear from you soon.
The Georgia Crew
Dan@ThePrimroses.co.uk
+44 7775 864875, voice and WhatsApp
The Solent is the place to be for International Six Metre sailing this summer with a full season of topflight regattas on offer, culminating in the Six Metre World Championships, hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron from Thursday 31 August to Friday 8 September.
Teams from across Europe and North America will be joining a strong British contingent taking part in a series of regattas in the central Solent as they prepare for what promises to be a thrilling Worlds.
Over the Whitsun weekend the fleet will participate in the Royal Thames Yacht Club (RTYC) Bank Holiday Regatta from Saturday 27 to Monday 29 May. This event will be a special Six Metre Training Regatta with racing on the World Championship course area.
From Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 June there’s the RTYC Regatta incorporating the Six Metre British Open Championship, with two trophies available to the winners – The Lion Bowl (Open division) and The Dudley Head Salver (Classic division). Again racing will be on the World Championship course area with post sailing gatherings in Cowes.
From Monday 17 to Friday 21 July there will be special windward leeward racing for the Sixes as part of the renowned British Classic Yacht Club Regatta. The fleet will be based at the event’s Cowes Yacht Haven race village, where there will be daily après sailing fun and a gala prize giving dinner. The race officer and his team for this event will the same team running the Worlds event at RYS in September, so a good dry-run for both them and the 6mRs.
Immediately following the BCYC Regatta is the Household Division Yacht Club Regatta on Saturday 22 July, which will be followed by prize giving reception at the Squadron.
Traditionally the Hamble Classics Regatta has been held in September, but this year the date has been brought forward to the weekend of 26 and 27 August, making it the perfect final warm up event before the Worlds. Hosted jointly by the Hamble River Sailing Club and the Royal Airforce Yacht Club in Hamble, racing will be in the central Solent, while the RAFYC will host the daily social events.
Already thirty-three teams have confirmed their intention to participate in the Worlds including the reigning Open Champion Momo and the reigning Classic Champion Dix Aout. Racing against the home British boats will be crews from Sweden, the USA, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Canada, Greece, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Online entry for the event is now open and further information about the 2023 Six Metre Worlds is available at 6metreworlds.com. Further information about all the warmup events can be found on the British Six Metre Association website.
For further information about the event please contact:
Tom Owen
Chair, British International Six Metre Association (BISMA)
chair@6mr.org.uk
Jess Gray
Event Manager & Logistics Coordinator, Six Metre World Championships 2023
jessicagraypr@gmail.com
Fiona Brown
Media Officer, International Six Metre Associaiton (ISMA)
fiona.brown@fionabrown.com
+44 (0)7711 718470
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