Oh! Flying boats can win and allowing them would obsolete the rest of the fleet. The reason that the Foiling C-Cat did not win were two different...
Having built a couple of boats, one from plans and one from a designer, I found that there were times that I needed to question the designer and...
Being an A-Cat sailor, this is up to a vote right now. It looks as though we will ban "flying boats". the reason for the modification of the...
Venom Sometimes the venom spewed back and forth on this site takes away from the actual information and progress that is being made daily and...
taken from Bob Webbon's post on the usaca site: For all those in North America who thought the hydrofoiling banana boards were of no...
You can try to contact Ben Hall at Hall Spars Email should be ben@hallspars.com unless it has changed. Ben first put the wing on his new Peter...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TornadoCat/ Try posting this question on the tornado Yahoo group. Above is the link and you will find that many of...
I am looking at your design in another manner. May I ask what your goal is with this boat also what is LOA and B-Max?
Does anyone have a design for sail winglets. It might be interesting to try on an A-Cat.
Let's deal with the first question as to glassing the inside of the hull. I built my tornado with what you call stitch and glue and I call...
I agree! Reducing tendency.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LR2ACATS/ This is a link to a yahoo group for the LR2 A-Cat. One of the issues that richard Roake looked hard at...
Are you sailing 1 up or 2 up? There are many performance cats out there that you can buy much cheaper than modifying an older Aqua Cat. I think...
I would personally use western red cedar rather than pine.
Look up Weta Trimarans. I think that there thought process on building is something that you could look at. Weta is a NZ company and you night...
You can contact Richard Roake through this site or contact Jeremy Laundergan jeremy@askeland.net at Askeland Engineering or Pete Melvin...
I have set up 2 groups for those who are interested in A-cats. The first is for all A-Cats and the second for those interested specifically in...
FOLLOW UP ON THE LR2 After finishing the A Class Worlds an evaluation of the LR2 was made by builder, John Lindahl; builder/sailor, Ian...
I do not want to address the designs today because time is short for the next couple of weeks. What was shown more clearly than anything else at...
The beams are imbeded on this one without the little stub ends hanging out. boat looks great RG.
