Impressive
ratios sails / displacement and weight / power. These boats
participated greatly in the development of the 60 feet open
and allowed small-scale to innovate, to test, and to bring about
some change in the architectural balances.
Today very
sophisticated, these high-powered boats require always
more preparation, efforts and researches. The rating rule, much
more restrictive these last years, (framework: length - largeur-hauteur)
and the banning of carbon in the masts, a little there limited
the architectural evolution, but much is still left to
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