... boat ... under ... lot ... the ... I just did that on my outrigger and had to redo some of the seams. ... by ... Yep , a 10% longer boat is a 30% more...
I've done quite a bit of fairing over the years but with poly/vinyl products rather than with epoxy. THe work I have done with epoxy fairing materials left me...
I spent many years on fishing boats and I ... the ... distorting ... However one has to keep in mind that they are built with a lot of redundancy, and can be...
To all of you, Me thinks this forum has gone to sleep..........Time to stir the opinion juices ! Or are we "mass" lurking ? The next Visionarry in the...
... Hmmm, they say necessity is the mother of invention--and I've always learned "sell what you got" so here's a thought: Currently, there are no kites capable...
Radical stuff Dave! In John's case ( and mine) it becomes even more interesting when you replace the free power of the wind when sailing 45 degrees off the ...
Radical stuff Dave! In John's case ( and mine) it becomes even more interesting when you replace the free power of the wind when sailing 45 degrees off the ...
How much is truly lost by motoring the IC, and building the right rig, and having it stepped wherever you reach open water? I mean realisticaly. I've never...
Sailboats of old used crosstrees when the rig needed to be taller than the available trees. Could the top of the rig slide down in a crosstree? Then again a...
You haven't given any good reasons against the gunter. My idea is to have a gunter with a curved spar to give an elliptical tip. The other idea is to have a...
I have not been too keen on kites. Nice idea but I don't get much help from the crew. So sail management has to be pretty easy and relatively foolproof. I...
For those who don't know much about the ICW. The US east Coast is very dangerous at certain times of the year. Hurricane season and Fall- Early winter....
I'm still not clear why you wouldn't be better off motoring the whole thing, or only stepping the mast when you have to go outside. If you plan on going up...
I guess you could classify me as a mass lurker, I would prefer to think of myself as a patient man, more interested in construction and seeing a visonarry...
Personally I like the idea of a soft wing sail, in fact I quite like Wharram's high gaff soft wing, or the double sided junk rig http://wingsail.neuralfuzz.com...
Sounds like an opportunity for Rob to dust off his telescoping mast ? I dont think I have seen an report on how that project ended and what was learnt from it....
I like the idea of an outboard for going to windward and hairing around when there is no wind or not enough time to put up the mast. It would have to be on a...
... I don't know what size outboard you guys have in mind but in my experience multihulls go faster under sail than the outboard will push them in almost any...
I talked with the owner, it has just 10 hours sailing. Got a 25 horse OB on it to be used as a both a launch and a sailboat. Sails nice but not enough...
Elegant simplicity. Does it have a line to the top gaff to control twist? Would the top gaff act to some extent as an end plate? Much as I like the simplicity,...
Not sure I see the wing part on this boat. Soft wing sails are so hard to execute effectively on a sailboat, that there are no successful commercial...
The Dynawing introducers, called powerfoils are only intended on their fixed wing dynafoils for sailboard use. They are a fixed part of the wing sail. They...
... 50 ... Could this be overcome with slightly more clearance and graphite lubrication? They already go to 6 or 7m. They don't have to encapsulate the mast,...
G'day, Just as it got interesting (ie I was having problems sorting out how it would all work), I broke my achilles tendon, and got a sponsorship deal which...
I've had a close lok at the site. The boat certainly goes well but if you look closely at the picture of the ww side of the sail, it doesn't look very smooth....
G'day, Spitfire was built, no expense spared and sailed maybe 5 times. Depending who you spoke to, it got to 30 knots in not much breeze, tacked on it's foils...
