Fourth set of R foils

The first non Canterbury set of foils will be started on soon

Progress is going well on the foil building programme with 2 foiling boats now on the water. Jess Hix and Paul Roe launched TheVirtual on the first prepreg set of foils last weekend. David Pairman is nearing completion of the Merde's set of foils, and then he's just got to fit them to the boat, there's a bit more work to ready a woof than the L3's, but how hard can it be?

Hopefully within the next week the fourth set will be started for a North Island boat. The fifth and sixth sets are committed locally and then we're out of prepreg. There are several more boats keen to proceed so its time to look at getting some more carbon!

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what's an r class skiff?

Extreme performance, light weight, skiff style, development dinghy class in the truest sense (see the rules for details).

Length	3.9m (max)
Hull	no minimum weight (typically 29-35kg painted), 1.4m minimum width
Construction	Unrestricted (typically ultra lightweight Carbon/Foam)
Rig	Unrestricted - typically two spreader pre-bent carbon spar
Foils	Unrestricted
Working Sails	Area is restricted 13m² - construction and rig plan are unrestricted - ie. wings, pocket luff, rotating masts are all acceptable
Kite	20m circumference resulting in a 30-36m² surface area
Crew	2 (minimum) on trapeze

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