Eric, I will be happy to knows that many others will adopt this new class, reconizing ,nevertheless, the beauty of the others classes.
The main advantage is that all materials can be used and the minimum weight is 4.5kg or 9.9lbs as such that also the less experts modelers can build this type of boat without the fear to be too heavy at the end of construction.
Few pictures to appreciate the spectacularity of these boats :
Oracle and the Italian CUP
SHOSHOLOZA at full speed and SHOSHOLOZA in calm waters
Claudio
there seems to be other people here. that are interested in this class… it there a website where they can get thier hands on plans on them. like boats like alinghi and etnz?
those pictures look awesome:zbeer:
cheers my friend. i think you are onto something here
Actually only China Team and Alinghi are made.
Most of the modelers use the same plan with various decorations.
Soon I will draw the NZL plans and decorations to.
Not yet and if I observe the AC class in the AMYA pages , they make use of the ‘CUP’ …
Here some more basic plans : the ALINGHI SUI-100
There two version with differents displacements giving further margins for the construction.
According to the Rules, the Fin and Bulb shall not be weighting more than 3,0kg - usually 2.85kg in the Bulb and 150g reserved for the Fin. The Rudder shall be be more than 70g.
The drawing refers to profile of 8% for the Fin and 10% for the Rudder.
The actual total appendages displacement is 467g that should be added to the Hull displacement .
Hello everybody!
I’m Matthias, defender of IACC120 CUP ROMA, I have 3 IACC 120 boats:
-Alinghi SUI-75 Winner on 2006 of Safalero’s Cup, made by Luca Nardo
(using Renato Chiesa project).
-Alinghi SUI-100, made myself and 3rd on 2009 IACC 120 ITALIAN CUP.
-Luna Rossa ITA-102, made myself, the faster boat I projected.
I can tell that these IACC 120 boats are so beautiful to use and so funny if used in regatta! Their performance are very close to “M” international class up to 10 knots and faster under 3 knots wind speed.
I hope also you, you’ll made using Claudio or Renato or some other projects your own boats. You can login to our forum (http://iacc120cup.altervista.org/phpbb/) to ask all question you need, we will happy to help you).
You can find the Class Rules and many other information and images on the offical IACC 120 Internet site (WWW.IACC120CUP.altervista.org).
Here some images of my boats:
Prada Luna Rossa ITA-102
Very pitty beacause 10cm are missing to be eligible for the Certification of the IACC120 Class. The Rules are tollerating only +/- 1cm. The IACC120 is supposed to be scaled at 1:20 of the AC Cup boats.
Team NZ launched its latest yacht yesterday - NZL68.
Designed by Michael Richelsen, now with Alinghi, and Friedrich Judel and Torsten Conradi from Judel/Vrolijk, the yacht is similar in shape to Alinghi and Oracle, which makes it an ideal testing boat for the New Zealand syndicate.
Team NZ easily beat Alinghi three races to one in a shortened race series due to high winds in the Pacific Series on Saturday.
Last sunday I sailed with my ITA-102 to test the new boat in a very hard condition for the biggest sails set A (80 dm2): 8-15 knots wind speed
The boat has shown a perfect balancing and trim; I sailed it using only my left hand because with the other one I filmed with my camera and that has been easy because the boat sailed with a perfect trim and balancing
You can see all on this video: (avaiable also in high resolution)
