Well she wasn't German..............
The Visby is the latest class of corvette to be adopted by the Swedish Navy after the Göteborg and the Stockholm class corvettes. The ship's design heavily emphasizes "low visibility" or stealth technology. The first ship in the class is named after Visby, the main city on the island of Gotland. The class has received widespread international attention because of its status as a stealth ship and its network-centric capabilities.
The ships are designed by Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and built by Kockums AB. The first ship of the class was launched in 2000 and since then the construction has been fraught with repeated delays. Finally in December 2009, the first two ships of the class were delivered to the Swedish Navy by the FMV, albeit with greatly reduced operational capability.
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Wiki....what would we do without it! Good detective work Dad, well done!
Steve
Me again...
ReplyDeleteJust looking at the video again, you seem to have the downhaul fixed at seat height rather than to the fore deck just behind the mast. If I'm seeing correctly, that puts your sail way back...and John also shows the foot fixed to the mast with line and parrell beads. Was there good advice given to do it differently?
I reckon the position of the foot combined with your downhaul height are good parts of the problem not only with sail shape, but the droopy boom that makes extra ducking necessary when you come about.
Hope I'm not way off the mark Steve!