Martin Fischer’s A-Class: Revealed…partially

Martin testing the new daggers and some special lifting rudders on a previous A-Class platform/hulls.
Well finally some light on this new A. I contacted Martin again to get it right:
– Render is from new A-Class hull design from Martin Fischer, to be fully revealed soon, the idea is to participate in 2011 A Worlds in Denmark with 4 of them.

– 2nd Photo: Fischer’s Wingmast (sail developed by Alex Udin), being tested on his previous A-Class platform.

– 3rd Photo: Martin testing his new blades on his previous A design (here without the wingmast), Curved daggers and lifting rudders, these unseen ones are not even similar to Landy’s or to his 40′ Tri that I published last week, In fact he is testing a special lifting blade among other more conventional rudders, and final decision will be taken previous production launch ( European factory)

So we’ll have to wait to see the complete new platform with new foils and wingmast (hope they launch the new A with it) all integrated with render hulls above. The A-class is on Fire.

I think hard wings are not viable yet in A-cats due to eventual pitchs, as it was experienced by the destroyed wings at last Moth worlds. But a Wingmast combo is a good compromise solution, don´t know why it wasn´t adopted earlier, as being currently used in the the LandYacht Class 3 for ie.

In Alex Udin’s interview last year, I asked him about it, but of course not possible to apply this tech on the F18, the A-Class is a perfect scenario to advance on them though.

If you still don´t know who Martin Fischer is, here you have a must read interview we made in 2010. Always trust designers that spend good time on the water, like Pete Melvin , Fischer is an experienced catsailor, add their professional knowhow and no wonder these two produce some of the finest racing cats in the world:
catsailingnews.blogspot.com/2010/05/cs-interview-martin-fischer.html
I heard Juan K telling an audience full of naval design students on a talk about the Volvo Race here in Arg : ” Spent less time on the desktop and dedicate more time to sailing” , Juan is an avid Star sailor, but now he´d better put some hours on cats with Santi Lange to design Artemis AC72…!

To contact Martin for a winning design: martin.ncl (at) gmail (dot) com

4 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:

    looks like everyone who bought a DNA or EVO is going to be out of date shortly…

  2. Anonymous says:

    Not at all
    clearly Martin is out of the class to long.
    A wingmast like that will be disaster on an A if you understand the dynamics of an modern rig .
    If your mast isn't flexible you are dead meat. You can't make the transition from upwind to downwind with it.

    A landyacht has always extremely apparent wind angles and a flat beach .Cant compare that to a cat.
    but anyway cool developments!

    The A class is alive & kicking!

  3. Anonymous says:

    And you are an expert designer of course.
    Fischer was out of the F18 class for some years and he came back with the current World Champion design.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Wait and see
    Firstly the boat and mast have to built at top level to have a chance .