Here’s something that might amuse https://www.southernpaddler.com/community/threads/14-x-30-x-18-lb-pirogue.8106/
I’m toying with turning an L 7 into a catamaran: I have a lovely new Phil’s foil db, and a very nice large rudder- anybody have experience with...
Anybody know who made the pultruded fiberglass beams that Mike Leneman used for the L7 trimaran? I’ve tried emailing him, but no response.
Has anyone done a V boom (can go by the name ‘canoe’ ‘Park Avenue’ or ‘trough’ boom) using a carbon tube with ply wings? very roughly like this...
What kind of circulation do the bare masts contribute to the system as a whole?
Well, the farfield is where dragons be, especially given the continual adjustment of a rule of thumb for infinity. But I'm still grumbling at the...
It might have been Sandia labs. At any rate my link doesn't work.
Some questions I'm pursuing concerning the large diameter mast in the middle (ish) of the weather side of the sail: -is less drag than a skinnier...
Mr 2- thanks very much! Just what I needed- The only problem having a bookshelf full of boat and boat design books is you have to plow through...
Here's the 16'er [ATTACH]
Tangential question: I'm getting the hull finished for a 14' by 36" canoe, and I'm concerned with self rescue. The hull part of the equation...
We had a Grumman 17' canoe with the Gunter kit. I was about 8 or so, and putting in 8,000 yards or so a day on the swim team, a lot of it with a...
Um, if I look at the cartoon correctly) doesn't the sailor's weight (if it stays in the same place) have more leverage on the heeling moment of a...
Anyone who has railed up on a D2 or longboard might not agree that the heeling effect is minimal- My main problem is that the leeboard is right...
And I'm toying with the idea of filling in below the jib boom to get some sort (or more at the very least) of seal. Initially, it seems the...
To this (a Hoyt jib boom)
So I've gone from this
Thanks, Mr D-
Here's the rest of the boat. Funny, but the boomed jib is close in performance to the chicken chute
Jib boom So I installed a Hoyt jib boom on Amati, and it works GREAT, especially downwind, but it puts the foot of the jib, um, kind of high,...
