G'Day folks, Â Just like to say publicly, thanks to Rob for his help over here in the west OZ. He's always eager to ralk, help and sailnad the culmination is...
G'DAY GUYS, Â new phots on hasrriette, coming along a bit slowly right now. demounting looks real eaasy now, with one end in a socket box at the solid side...
YO ROB, Â HEY HOWS IT? GOOD WEATHER WHENEVER YOU'RE FREE NOW. TO GO OUTAND SEE HOW IT GOES NOW THAT I'VE GOT IT JUST ABOUT BACK TOGETHER AGAOIN. Â OK ... ...
Hi harry folk,, Â I was affixing on to harriette the wing vang. Now does anyone not know what I mean by that? Â There is a picture going to get uploaded soon...
-HI Doug, Are you getting a bit lonely with all the harry people noy having anything to say? I've been looking at the work you've done but I wonder about your...
I went to see Arttu's boat in Espoo yesterday. It was beautiful. Too bad the weather was horrible and I didn't see anyone onboard so did not get to see more...
There is currently interesting discussion going on at multihulls list on bow shapes of new Oracle BMW and Alinghi. This brings to mind the discussion on this...
Hi Arto, These armchairs go well to weather in all conditions and never have to compromise. I must be getting set in my ways as I get older as I haven't...
hi robert  yeah lonely, bored sick and tired of it all, but looking forward to something fun coming along in the shape of a boat launch or two, so what paper...
Sounds like you've got the winter blues. You certainly have got stuck into the rebuilding but can imagine it can seem interminable at times. I am pretty...
Rob, I live in San Antonio, TX. I've seen quite a few Brown tris built by Lonestar Multihulls in Brownsville. I tried to go to their website, but looks like...
th ebows curve normal ways up and out under the water line i think , but slope in wards up away from there.  makes it a good safe all round purpose design....
Hello Robert , I think it should be possible to have a daggerboard rudder that can kick up. It would work on a ruder that can rotate 270 degrees but would...
OK george? what's up with the boats, you could try out rudders on the small one couldn't you. The small proa in the barn with the flat bottom i think it was in...
Hi, BD had the kick up dagger rudders. To be able to steer them you need balance. The old BD rudders worked, but only when fully down (2 m draught) The balance...
This is pretty well what I have come down to. I would probably have gone with the older cassette rudders as most of the time I would be sailing in plenty of...
Hi Doug, Haven't sailed the Jarcat for a while. Last time was in Jervis Bay as the boat is sitting on a block of land just north of Bateman's Bay. The Admiral...
Hi Doug, Haven't sailed the Jarcat for a while. Last time was in Jervis Bay as the boat is sitting on a block of land just north of Bateman's Bay. The Admiral...
Crowther tried barrell rudders on some designs (Southern Ocean 50 if memory serves me right). They claimed so much friction that steering got too heavy. It is...
Hello, I do not think the balance would be a problem as the rudder would be most or all of way down when sailing and I would only be pulling it to a...
Hi, This rudder works when all the way down. On BD I wasn't too keen on trying to test the kick up feature. These blades are very large even if they weigh only...
Hi Robert, Thanks for that link. This bow stuff is very interesting. I am convinced that a high speed boat is much better of using them. ( even at low speed...
-Under those conditions there shouldn't be a problem. The problems on the original supports were sorted out pretty easily with an extra diagonal strut. The...
I had a look at the sketches I made a while back of what the bows on a Harry, both the lw and the ww ones could look like. I will try and clean them up and...
