Gray on White

V2 Paradox for a customer. Clean look with white hulls, grey grip, and black tramp. Grip is by Raptor, paint by Durepox and tramp by Steve Brewin.

Keeping Busy

Testing, two boat tuning, regattas, and finishing new As. Weeding out weak links in the supply chain and beefing up QC. Here are some pictures. Words will resume soon…

Testing Videos

Some moving pictures showing testing of Paradox V2.0. The new foils are promising, with the boat feeling very lively and free. Quantitative measurements back up the qualitative feedback. As already mentioned, the principal benefit is ease of use: The foils require no intervention by the sailor. Tacking performance is also better and handling is very […]

Cultivating Simplicity

Paradox Version 2.0 Foil Concept The new foil concept is simple, easy to use and low drag. After lots of R&D to validate theoretical predictions, it seams that for most sailors the benefits of ease-of-use outweigh those of ‘trick’ configurations that need to be learned, tacked, and trimmed to suit changing conditions. The brief for […]

Orange on Blue

Some more images before a detailed update…          

Version 2.0

Details to follow…

Update

With the A Cat Europeans and Australian Nationals coming up, it is a very exciting time in the class. Paradox will not be at these events as we are well into finalising the production design that, as you will see very soon, is a totally new boat with most key concepts re-visited. Looking back at […]

Moving Pics

Another video of Paradox starting to properly exploit new stable foiling setups. Stability is heavily influenced by the relative lift contribution of rudder winglets and main foils. We now set up the rudders to provide some upward lift when the boat is at neutral trim. If driving force from the sail increases, causing the bow […]

Pilotcam

A short video from a recent testing session. Our understanding of the settings necessary for sustained stable foilborne sailing is steadily improving. It is worth re-iterating the definition of stable flight with reference to the feedback loop that arises when external forces upset pitch angle and ride height. A stable setup settles on an attitude […]

Setup

As already mentioned, we have spent lots of time on the water recently, with different foil concepts, testing, evaluating and tuning. Some tests with Paradox sailing alone and some in the company of other known fast A Cats. It is safe to say that we are getting a handle on key issues and how they […]