B. Cowan, reason I wondered about weight was simple comparison, Shunt area is different...we have a harbor here which has L-shaped ingress/egress...
B Cowan, might have missed it, but was weight given? Minimum area for a tack? Pragmatic ? Nic-a-bateau!
Never contacted him...as rig does wonders with stays y'all advised me to use but now doing some more stuff...new outrigger, cockpit and mast step....
Sorry, my bad...figured avatar would render pics of rig with click...just want to avoid a disaster as might have happened with hull and no...
Live in "tropical" MN, older and am "anci!" I know...
Long ago I decided to remove outrigger hull, replacing with asymmetric foam hull'; add a cockpit to main hull to use row or paddle rig and NOW...
Winward, I should mention that your idea is fine, save later need for maintenance, wood is very tough, but is also spendy....Sitka Spruce is out...
Back then I searched for sailboard masts...carbon...then, they were weaker and cracked bases were easy to fix[ then, we ferruled them to a 6061 AL...
C boats are one or me faves,,,used to run with one up on Lake Minnetonka with my hot old 110...on windy and choppy days,,,,' You're quite...
Thank you...C-19 has limited our efforts here...must add cockpit to main hull and still planning to make new foam outrigger hull...local...
FWIW re MO sails, My rig is Dacron only, with luffs and no stiffeners, attached to spars using hook and loop and is 200 square feet...
I have been sailing one for two years...made from recycled Hobie Hulls, T6061 A, repurposed catbon masts as spars, per original MO plana... Pics...
There is book of a slick ocean Proa that may offer some insight...I have it, but upstairns and just cracked a brew...lazy dodger that I am, so...
Beach catting is what currant rig is set for, not a keeler and...forgot one thing..I built this modern MO with easy tzker idea in mind, no surf...
Imagine, sailing along in heavy weather, keel/sloop Ensign...beer in inhand (left); right mitt on tiller, must tack, so we push tiller over and...
Just occurred to me..."Proa" is "boat" not a process. Definition language, FWIW.
Rael..., Dig! Open water is also key. I have owned/sailed a number of rigs on which motors were not possible. But. a smooth shunt has its...
I do not wish to begin a P------ Contest, but, a Priest in Occham showed us: Simple is best... William of Occham. I have sailed in places where...
Complicated...my only observation is that a tacker would be simpler...
Luc.... , this swab has but one question...tacking in harbors might be a problem or not? Rest is fine...Seems to me our harbors are already quite...
