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Dunno but it makes a lovely garden feature!!!

Chop it in for a Ferrari, the Foolish tows just fine on the back of mine  (in my dreams!!!!!)

How does an inhaul work?  How do you set it up?

She spent some time at Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club at Leamington Spa in the early nineties.  As I recall she was fitted with a daggerboard!

For me the issue with outhauls on all of my boats (N12s and other boats I have owned in the past) is the ease or not of which the outhaul runs free when let off. In the majority of my boats the system fitted has not been particularly good.
My Foolish 3426 appears to have the standard set up including small plastic stopper balls around a close fitting bridle made of seriously thin string, a shackle, some purchase inside the boom and a shockcord to ease the let off.  I have to say the system works really well (ie just enough purchase to get the outhaul in without pulling yards of rope and it eases in all wind conditions including drifters when the cleat is released. I am not aware that the boom is hanging low because of the bridle arrangement.  It sounds like the bridle might be a bit too big for the job on AndyP's boat.

Some years ago good friend of mine took his International Canoe to Holland (I recall) for a European Campionship via ferry.  To save money on the Ferry he opted to roof rack the boat rather than trail it and it sat on top of a very weary 20 year old Triumph Herald!  The mast overhang was rather interesting too!!
In days gone by I regularly towed boats in my Talbot Sunbeam 1.0 litre which had a Hillman Imp engine and it was fine.  I am sure the modern crop of small cars will do just fine!
 

With the split end mainsheet arrangement I find that the end of the rope seems to twist which results in the splits wrapping round each other a couple of times.  Is there any easy way to prevent this or does it not really matter that much?

If I am to order a new suit for next season should I specify fully battened?

Erm have I missed something here?

Any results to hand for this one?

I used method a) when sailing a 29er whilst on a Sunsail beach Holiday in Turkey.  It took a lot of getting used to but is clearly suited to the skiff style of boat where you tend to use the cockpit as a working platform that you walk around.
I have seen it used on an A/C boat (on a small shifty puddle)and to my my mind it looked a bit awkward.  It might work better on a DB but personally I think the split mainsheet arrangement works really well on a 12.

Surely after looking at the NOR where the definition is the boat being self draining, and sail no is after 3414. Surely the advantage here is NOT the sail number but whether the boat can self drain, as a self draining boat can be "up and running after a capsize" quicker than an single bottom boat. Also they will be stiffer than single hull boat. I think therefore we could dispense with the sail number and make is easy- AC= single bottom hull, regardless of sail number. Therefore any boat converted to db will no longer be an AC boat.
 
Martin

 
Just to clarify there is currently more than one user on this forum named Martin.  The views quoted above should not be attributed to me!! 

So what de we know about 3519 in terms of pushing the envelope (See Dare's post below)?

Yesterday I had a Jimboesque eureka moment when I sailed my Foolish singlehanded in a Club race as both of my regular crews (their weight range 9.5 to 10.5 stone approx) were both on duty.  (My weight yesterday was just under 12 stone) Wind Speed was Force 0 gusting 0.5  and the race was a pursuit format.  Because I was sailing a doublehanded boat singlehanded the Club routinely applied a 5% time penalty so I started at +25.5 mins instead of +22.25 mins.  Normally I find the Foolish a bit of a struggle to move in a flat calm on our inland micro puddle but yesterday she absolutely flew (relatively speaking!)and I won the race making an absolute mockery of the additional time penalty, despite taking a wrong turning and having to do a time consuming unwind  The boat felt completely different. and the stern of the boat was noticably higher out of the water with me sat in my helming position for doublehanded sailing.
In my time, I have sailed many other doublehanded dinghies singlehanded in a race, but have never noticed anything like the speed hike as in the Nat 12. 
Not sure I can convince the crews to stay at home when the wind drops every time, but joking aside it seems to me that we may have got ourselves into a bit of a hole optimising boats to win major championships at the expense of other scenarios.  Not sure if it is a good thing and whether or not we can make amends within current rule set.

I am sure that there was one kept at Morston (North Norfolk) a few years back but I haven't seen it recently.  It was uncovered and as I recall looked fairly sound

I have friends who are in Team No 11 "The Leamington Luffers".  Last time I  looked they were well on their way (sailing!) to Ben Nevis