The obsession with streamlining to make the bridge deck cabin appear smaller and more streamlined than it really is strikes me as an aesthetic...
I did as one poster wrote "jump ship"...... There has been a lot of good material since. I lose patience with being a punching bag, and...
There seems to be the assumption that only a thin fiberglass layer would be used on the bottom.......... Part of the design of a boat is to...
How you use a material is key of course.... as has been said here. I'm well aware of the higher density XPS foams..... but they are not easy to...
"don't know nothing"??? No I can't claim to have worked with Burt Rutan...... though I did attend one of his workshops where we built a wing....
That's pretty interesting....... What I hear most of the time is stuff like "XPS has no place in boat building", "it isn't construction foam", and...
This topic has popped up here and elsewhere repeatedly, with the same objections repeated again and again, some I feel are valid, others less so....
There seem to be a fair number of people with ambitions to do extreme voyaging in very small boats. Among the more interesting is Sven Yrvind an...
Unlike Guzzies3, I'm not an automotive engineer.......... but also unlike him, I've worked on vehicles.......mostly pickups and trucks for the...
It would be neither........ Electric fences are completely legal and used everywhere, You presumably are not on the boat.... and a jolt from a...
There should be a complete thread on deterrent systems. The late Patrick Childress did a Utube on piracy deterrent using flares.
Electric fencers do not normally set fires........... who in their right mind would call the fire dept in such a situation???? Most folks have a...
There could be a whole thread on the various ways people have found to thwart thieves. My favorite deterrent for "undesirables" is electricity....
One benefit of looking "shabby" or sustainably shabby is not being a "target" for thieves.
This is a "mental exercise", not something I really proposed to do.... Something fun to toss around that is far from conventional. I chose...
Red: Let's address these things one at a time........ There is no doubt that synthetic rigging can improve the situation with standing rigging,...
I'm not exactly looking to solve any "problem" specifically. Looking at available catamarans, the most abundant and readily available in a price...
This really isn't a proa.... It's merely a bidirectional catamaran.... But I've always wondered why the PF sail isn't more common... a great...
Of course this is a "just for fun" exercise, not a serious proposal.... Something far from convention to play with mentally and in napkin...
Typically a junk rig has the mast forward of where it would be on a Bermuda rig because there is a smaller proportion of the total sail area...
