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Upgrading boat. Opinions wanted


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Thanksx beau770. We think the grunty chicken option'd be too small. We've a challenge 29 which is like the tardis space wise so hard to go backwards in that area. Problem with her is she is not competitive in her current state. We just want her to go faster.

 

930's seem to have the go but compromise the cruisability with fixed transom and narrow beam.

 

Like what meister has done though. We'd be stoked to go like her. We have the budget to make similar mods.

 

Bazthemammoth is researching about what the hull bow section should be if we went down that route.

 

Also looking at keel design.

 

Any ideas out there?

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I like the idea of modding a boat and for some reason we seem to get attached to the ones we have.

That said it's always a lot cheaper to buy a boat with all the mods already done.

I think you will find the keel alone will go most of the way towards buying another boat.

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You should probably be looking at 88's as well. Not as exciting as 930's at times but really good all rounder. Lots of cockpit space for the after race debrief as well. Not overly deep which can be useful in the harbor.

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If you have to sell your boat first before you buy, focus on selling the boat first before seriously looking another, as in today's market it could take a long time. Modifying the boat don't have that problem. 

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Thanks willow, but given the amount of mods you've done on your boats (plural) you'd be a confirmed proponent of improving what is essentially a very useable boat. Just a mite too slow.

 

88's suffer from the one class premium and only the good ones would be a significant improvement. And the old adage of not buying someone else's problems apply.

 

We think the bow mods will be the most valuable, a la Meister. We'd be keen to hear what others think. . Our current configuration has a lot of rocker forward of the keel which acts like a brake. Our thesis is that lowering the rocker will smooth the entrywhich together with an extra foot of waterline will give better flow and allow us to plane earlier.

 

This is what meister did.

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Definitely like doing mods and it can be very satisfying. But unless you do the bulk of it yourself it can be eye wateringly expensive. The hard bit with the keel would be getting the engineering right so it doesn't fall off. That said if you can copy someone who has already done it easy. In my humble opinion the easiest way to make a boat plane earlier is to make it lighter. You could probably save a significant amount of weight with no loss of righting moment by going for a bulb keel. Not sure about the bow mod but certainly seems to work for the Meister.

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Therin is the rub. As you pointed out earlier a keel could cost the earth perhaps about the same as the bow and a few sails which would be a low risk way to start. If that helps then we can investigate the keel.

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