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Welcome to the New Zealand R Class Skiff Website
Extreme performance, light weight, skiff style, development dinghy class
Anyone requiring further information, wishing to have a go or wanting to join the this high performance sailing class should contact us.
TheVirtual Flies report and video
The first set prepreg foils have flown. read the report. We are still hoping to get out and obtain some more exciting footage before winter, but in the meantime here's a short clip from the launch.Leander 2009
L3 wins Leander 2009, Franken Skiff second and Davie Norris Boatbuilders third.
see report and final results and pictures from Garrick Cameron at www.studio5.co.nz
L3 hydrofoils flying
Hydrofoil development, more two boat testing.
Some more testing today (Jan 4) and a few more photos see the news items on the right for more details.
There's a new hydrofoil notes article following on from the original article.
We've now done a few more two boat test with L3 on foils against TheVirtual with a conventional setup. The breeze was around 16kts in the first video Sean and Dan were still getting the hang of sailing on foils and dipping in to windward from time to time. But you can see that the boat was generally accelerating away and climbing to windward and still quite a bit quicker than the conventional craft.
The second video shows the boats reefed sailing in over 20kts, L3 is staying consistently up on the foils and it clearly has a speed advantage.
Also checkout the construction of the new L4 r class/12-foot skiff here.
