Ok, I'm convinced. I'll stick a canting keel on her. I've seen Shockwave/Alfa Romeo in action and I can't imagine the pace that Pyewacket and the...
Mistral, Hmmmm... the Tom28's big issue was its cost... from reading the initiating post from Clive (whom I would like to hear from... he...
P17 Concept Update Oops... Sorry folks, overdid the weight estimate a fair bit. Yes, the keel is fixed, simply for ease of modeling amongst other...
My Australian NS14 class skiff/dinghy design, in all it's computer-rendered glory!
not bad, considering it was my first maxsurf/rhino model from scratch
Thanks Doug, I will do a widened version with a more substancial cuddy when I can get around to it. I'll keep the profile and freeboard along the...
P17 Concept Just a little something that I knocked up in Rhino/Maxsurf after seeing this topic... not too bad for a first shot at Rhino!! This...
Well... those hydrofoiling moths (provided that they are completely up on the foils and stay there, so the boat is about a metre in the air, which...
I get the feeling that Doug Lord sold it shortly after putting it on the water for it's maiden voyage, and little has been heard of it since,...
(litterally) Flying 18 footer... Just got the latest Australian Sailing Mag (for those who don't know it, it is the magazine to have if you're a...
Whoops. It helps if I take more than just a quick look... rule 10 reverses and denies rule 8. Oh well, if only they were allowed!!
Check out http://www.usaca.info/rules.html, rule 8. If that isn't explicit enough, I don't know what is. These are the rules as currently endorsed...
Just quietly speaking of A-Cats... Just had a quick squiz through the A-class cat rules.... It turns out this it is clearly stated in the rules...
Sounds like fun.... Brett, Sounds like an amusing way to have Physical and Mathematical theory drilled into one's head, all vaguely...
Brett, Not yet, but I have gained a position there for Naval Architecture starting in a month's time and looking forward to it. Until such time...
Foiler Anomalies Doug, I wholeheartedly agree that foiling is the way to go (to the point of doing minor experiments with foils on a couple of...
Has this fascinating thread taken a sudden nosedive into obscurity? Come on people... whatever happened to the Int. 14 design that was going on in...
