Hi Gary,
We had two boats at the Club with similar treatments.
A Hobie 33 that the owner did a gorgeous job of fairing in an
enclosed sweeping reverse transom (which we called a drake's tail)...
but it ruined the boat for one design racing.
The other is a Santa Cruz 50 with a bolt on sugar scoop. For me this
is the most practical as it can be very handy for dinghy boarding and
swim ladder placement when cruising and has the advantage of being
removable for whatever reason.
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
At 09:37 AM 20/01/2013, you wrote:
You might look at the hull form of the 30-1. I have noticed when
powering or when sailing fast that my stern drops into the water and
there is a lot of turbulence behind the boat, which must be creating
a bunch of drag. I have dreamed of adding a scoop to raise the
overall length to about 33 feet, to add waterline and reduce this
drag (and to put the exhaust somewhere else than underwater when
motoring above 3 knots.... hopefully getting the transom a lot
cleaner). I've felt that the 30 is a cut down 33 with a flat transom.
Anyone know of anybody who has done this? Our boatyard did 'fatten'
the aft area of a Baltic IOR style boat to make it less squirrely
under spinnaker and that worked well. They just glued a lot of foam
to the original hull, laid glass over it and faired it in. Made the
boat look a lot better and sail better as well.
Gary
30-1
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