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Photographer Sönke Hucho from Berlin, Germany has collected his most beautiful pictures of wooden sailboats and put them together to form a free screen saver. Information accompanies each picture to give you a better idea of just how many different types of yachts and yawls exist.

Close-hauled action shots are mixed with crowded regatta scenes, relaxed gliding, peaceful harbour moods and romantic anchoring.

The freeware screensaver will be available until the publication of the new Classic Sailboat Calendar on November 1st 2006.

Classic Sailboat Screensaver
 
Nice pics. But; is it me or is he sitting out on the wrong side?

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You'll notice that there's not enough wind to create a ripple in the water, so the sailor sits on the leeward side to give the boat a slight list, under which condition it moves faster than it would when totally upright. I don't know why this is so, but dinghy racers assure me that it is.
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Isn't it supposed to reduce the wetted area and therefore reduce drag?

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It actually increases the waterline lenght and therefore displacement speed.

Boat looks like a Dragon. Heard a good buzz at a regatta a couple of years ago about wooden Dragons. It seems when the class allowed fibreglass construction the new boats could not match the speed of the old wooden boats from a large manufacturer. When one of these old boats was re measured it was found to have "extra" waterline lenght, something like an extra 6 inches. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Imparting a list ensures the sails take up a reasonably efficient dynamic curve so maximising the drive from what little air movement there is. Keeping the boat fully upright in these conditions the sails just hang flat and until there is sufficient wind to fill them out will provide very little drive.
 
Hmmm. I can see the logic, and I do tend to weight out little boat up to leeward on gentle days. But he has his arse in the water. That can't be right. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Surely the stem is too upright for a dragon
 
So there's three things I can tell my wife when TG is well heeled (which is more than can be said for the owner), we've reduced our wetted area, allowed our sails to set better and I've increased my waterline length!

Don't dinghy sailors always have a wet bum?
 
I was under the impression that one heeled a boat to leeward in very light winds to help the sails take shape rather than have them hanging like washing on a line.
 
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