Walk through the new Hanse 410 

None of the 40 foot production boats have them now. I guess uncluttered cockpit more important. I guess it depends what your goals are.

The traveller can go on the coach house roof, where the bridle is. I get it that many purchasers may not understand the use of a traveller but they'll never learn with out one. Maybe Hanse should halve the size of the rig and do away with those pesky stays.

​@@atakd the only purpose of a traveller is vertical adjustment of the boom. In the past, you would use the main sheet for vertical adjustment and the traveller for lateral adjustment. Today on modern boats, you use a single point mainsheet for lateral adjustment and the vang, topping lift or rodkicker for vertical adjustment. It's simpler, easier, cheaper to make and far more effective than a traveller. You see, even if a traveller track runs the full beam of the boat, you would still get zero boom height controll when the aft tip of the boom is all the way out board. Stern mounted or roof mounted it does not matter. When you wing out the boom outboard to go downwind, you still end up using the vang, rodkicker or topping lift to control the boom height, because the traveller is completely useless in any sort of downwind course. No wonder even IMOCA 60 designers are getting rid of travellers these days. (IMOCA 60s are some of the most prestigious racing sailboats in the world). It's sad to discredit thousands of hours invested into designing a boat only for it to be classified as "not for sailors", as you ignorantly put it, only because it's lacking an outdated, expensive piece of equipment that in a lot of situations you can't even use.

Excuse my ignorance. What is a traveller?

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