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Your Bristol 32 was designed in 1964 and so reflects a mid-point in the transition from early CCA boats like the fractionally rigged Triton or very low aspect rig found on something like Pearson Vanguard to the really late CCA boats. To see what I am referring to look at really late CCA boats like the Bristol 34, C&C 39, or Hinckley 38 or perhaps more graphically look at what happened to the Tartan 34's across the span of their CCA era production where the foot of the mainsail got progressively shorter from the 34 A, through the 34 B and ultimately to the 34 C with the shortest foot of all at the end of the very CCA era.
These higher ratio mainsails and larger genoas carried over into the early IOR boats and where the trend became even more extreme.
Jeff
Last edited by Jeff_H; 05-15-2008 at 05:13 PM.
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