| With an all-up weight of just 44,000 pounds, a 70-foot beam, and twin, unstayed wing masts, the Adrian Thompson design is one of a handful of unlimited nautical projectiles setting course for The Race. |
| If you build a cat with an unstayed mast it would be very impractical to put it in the middle. |
| The carbon fibre unstayed masts have aluminium wishbone booms which when set are angled down, needing no kicking strap. |
| However, an unstayed mast must be of significantly larger diameter to compensate for the lack of stays. |
| But with an unstayed main mast and a retractable or fold up bowsprit my usual objections to them are overcome. |
| This cruising sloop features an unstayed gaff rig for simplicity. |
