Real photo or a rendering?
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The thing that spooks me about this boat is the huge, unprotected cockpit. Of course, my viewpoint as an ocean sailor probably colors things as most others' don't.
That brings up an interesting question. Is it really a fractional rig or is it a masthead rig with a solent stay?
Well done that's actually a VERY interesting question!
I had always assumed that the gennaker was on a soft stay that could be lowered. That would make the inner stay (at the chainplate) structural and the boat fractional.
But if the gennaker stay is is structural... then.... solent rig! Kinda!
Things to ponder:
1) There is no bob-stay on the sprit to support the HUGE loads that would be on the gennaker is that was structural.
2) That means that that sail never comes down, and you drive around it with wrapped like that in front of your jib all the time.
Considering it's most likely photo shopped a bob-stay could easily have been overlooked. It also looks like the shrouds go to the top which would indicate a masthead rig. You just never know after a graphic artist gets ahold of a photo.
http://www.bluejacketyachts.com/blue-jacket-40.html
The large sailplan is a further refinement of the Solent style rig featuring standard double head sails with a working jib and a lightweight 150% reacher that mounts on the integral bow prod, both furled with Harken® systems. The working jib is fitted with a carbon fiber Hoyt Boom® that is self-tending and improves performance with its close sheeting and self-vanging feature while the large reacher boosts performance in light air or when off the wind
The large sailplan is a further refinement of the Solent style rig featuring standard double head sails with a working jib and a lightweight 150% reacher that mounts on the integral bow prod, both furled with Harken® systems. The working jib is fitted with a carbon fiber Hoyt Boom® that is self-tending and improves performance with its close sheeting and self-vanging feature while the large reacher boosts performance in light air or when off the wind
This looks like a computer generated 3D model. Shadows of the model (sailboat) are correct. The only way that can be done wrong is if there were multiple lights generating shadows which is possible but highly unlikely. The shadows would appear really wrong if that were the case. I use to do this type of modeling for corporate interior design projects. The life lines appear to have a diameter which is much too large compared to the stanchions. The Quantum logo is reversed on the main and headsail. And the location of the sailmakers logo keeps changing. That's a dead giveaway that this isn't a photo.
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No the stays go to the hounds at the level of the inner stay, like a fractional.
And pics of the real boat show no bobstay. I would have bet thousands on that. Cruise HATE bobstays unless you can launch your anchor off the end.
I did see that Tim Jacket called it a modified solent. Whatever that means! To me the real question is if the the gennaker stay is structural.
No. It has a park avenue or 'pocket boom'. Its designed to hold the main on top of the boom in that pocket. Per the spec it uses regular full-roach main with battcars. You can see the lazy-jack lines in that same picture. Its supposed to be a performance boat. No-one with a performance mindset would use a rolled mainsail. Too many compromises.
http://www.tidewateryachts.com/inve...T/HAVRE-DE-GRACE/MD/US/details-5159688#photos
Nice boat but way above my paygrade..
Nice boat but way above my paygrade..
Yeah, if you closely trail the sheets, they don't match the sails and shadows. The windward jib sheet is trailing toward the deck at the bow, yet it appears on the leech of the sail if you look closely. This myth is DEBUNKED!