Richard, you're always welcome. We try to insure that we never leave anyone on shore, and so far everyone who's showed up (even some without...
Ray, You're probably right on the money. I am trying to add to the Vrolyk fleet (a lovely sloop of 45') and I'll be damned if I can find a...
Richard, Stop by the Marina in San Francisco any Wednesday night during the summer, except for July, and catch a ride. Our rule is to never...
Try a piece of metal, bent in a "Z" shape. The upper horizontal part of the metal screws to the top of your piece of wood you already have. The...
Richard, Thank you for this post, I'll go have a look at the ISO standard. Regarding your estimates of the percentage of multihulls vs...
Point taken B-))
Yup, one of our worst traits. When I got back from cruising last time I realized that I had hauled TWO sets of sight reduction tables along for...
VHF works fine, you just need a chart that shows where the radio transmitters are located. B
What's bugging you guys??? I have been reading through this forum for a while and I'm really confused. What's the deal? Why does anyone care...
Boston, Here in San Francisco there is a very small change in temperature. No more than 10 or 15 degrees. Our balsa boats do just fine. You...
I just re-read the CE spec - I did not see any reference to a "maximum design load" anywhere in the spec when talking about the boat being...
AK, A lot of us put things that are giant versions of your bags into our boats. During this discussing about boats sinking folks have...
Boston, I don't believe, from looking at the West web site, that Epoxy lets vapor or liquid water through. Indeed, West Epoxy is used to make...
Boston, Thank you for attempting to get folks to use the terms correctly. However, this article as a number of terrible errors in it. Osmosis...
I'm completely certain that one could build a boat that would remain floating when flooded. It's a simple matter of putting enough foam in it to...
AK, Sailboards, the newer wider ones, have a lot of stability. Indeed, the board is really hard to flip over. Of course, the sailor probably...
The CE certification language is: Buoyancy and Flotation: The craft shall be constructed to ensure that it has buoyancy characteristics...
Well, duh... let me think... maybe the foam? Did I get it right? B-)) LOL! But, that's not really the question that matters, as there's a lot...
Ray, I have read a great deal about that Fastnet and talked to a few of the folks who were crewing board boats on the race, friends of mine....
I own a balsa cored boat that was built in 1980. It's called a Moore-24. There were a little over 150 of these boats built between 1976 and 1984...
