| While Open 60s went through a spate of them falling off, canting keels are now causing controversy in other classes. In our recent article looking at the new Ericsson 3 VO70, designer Juan Kouyoumdjian was outspoken on his views on the part of version 2 of the Volvo Open 70 rule governing the canting keel, where the combined weight of bulb and foil is now limited to a maximum of 7.4 tonnes.
Surely, our Argentinian friend queries, combining bulb and foil weight will result in teams putting all the weight in the bulb and reducing the size of foil as much as possible, which cannot be a good thing?
Keen to set the record straight, James Dadd, Chief Measurer at the RORC Rating Office who administer the VO70 rule, gave his view on this. ...more |
