Trudeau Yachts

9 Responses to Trudeau Yachts

1. Alain Gloster | April 14, 2009 at 3:52 pm | Reply

   May as well kick off with a comment.
   I’m not sure if anyone noticed but the last update of the knockabout and the T20 included an updae to the transom naming system (it no longer changes color). New templates have been updated on Jacquelines website (well the old customisation links now point to the new templates). Or you can use the old ones and fiddle the texture settings to suit.

2. RJ Kikuchiyo | April 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm | Reply

   Love JT and her boats! more more more!!

3. Tory Micheline | April 21, 2009 at 10:06 am | Reply

   Leetle Cat – The entry level Yacht from Jacqueline Trudeau is a VERY nifty boat. A group was formed to celebrate, collaborate and enjoy this fast little Cat Boat.

   Join the group:

   Leetle Cat Class Association

   http://picasaweb.google.com/tory.micheline/LCCA

4. Cristalle Karami | April 29, 2009 at 8:30 am | Reply

   Jane, any chance you can finally unprotect the J-Class page? Would love to discuss the J-Class there. Or maybe here… my question is, has anyone done the PHRF hotlap with it, and how does it score?

   • janefossett | April 29, 2009 at 11:13 am | Reply

     Woots!
     I have maybe 4 articles to post on J-Class; Hopefully the first rolls out today.
     What’s the phrf? I think I already posted it based on early beta test results. The J-Class scored a handicap of .93, which I think underestimates it’s real abilities.
     That puts it on a par with the Defender II and Trucordia Yawl, but ranks it slower than the ACA33 or even the Larinda.
     The problem here, however, is that the ACA33 and Larinda don’t use “apparent wind” and are therefore unfairly matched with the new J-Class. This is an interesting discussion, and I’m looking forward to people’s opinions about ‘speed’ in this context.

     • Cristalle Karami | April 30, 2009 at 10:31 am |

       I also think that it underestimates the ability. I would have expected it to go faster than Larinda… but then, I have never sailed irl and I don’t know what kind of performance a schooner should get, versus the J-Class.

     • Pensive Mission | April 25, 2010 at 12:43 am |

       I’m confused what the “expectations” on the J class are based on (FWIS, I have no expectations, so I’m not disagreeing). As I (dimly, I admit) understand it, each boat uses its own collection of physics equations to determine speed given a bunch of inputs. In RL, these equations are indeed common to every boat (although I doubt the correct equations are fully known yet). Thus, the expectations of experienced sailors based on observations and “feel” would carry significant weight. But in SL a designer could, I think, change a coefficient or three and change the PHRF number by any factor they pleased, which could play havoc (havok?) with expectations.

5. janefossett | April 29, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Reply

   Pensive stated:
   “I’m confused what the “expectations” on the J class are based on …”
   Well, so am I; it’s a confusing issue.
   I think we all seek a progressively more accurate emulation of real-life sailing, and I admit that’s not always easy or direct.

   Certainly, the same problems exist in RL and SL; Sailing is a different sport depending whether you engage in short dinghy races or substantially longer, offshore crewed competitions.
   Perhaps we could all work together to evolve a bigger vision of Sailing that incorporates all the varied aspects….

6. Chaos | September 8, 2011 at 3:48 pm | Reply

   http://www.sailinganarchy.com/fringe/2011/mor%201.jpg

   Looks familiar.