Rubbish. Many of us know about "germanic tribes ancestors history of struggle against Romans"..... after all those nasty Romans and Celts had the...
Why don't you try to show some evidence for these utterly untrue claims? There was no significant "appearance of narrow ports" as distinct from...
The boats above show how old timers designed hulls. By the 1880s, the top designers were normally designing by using plans rather than models....
Huh? SA/D just uses different units. It's as frank and honest as sail to tons.
No, yachting wasn't born in the middle and late 19th century. There were yacht clubs since the 1700s. One of the first was the Cumberland Fleet of...
It's interesting and would be easy to handle, but to counterbalance the sales talk from the website there's several issues. Please note that I'm...
Daggerboard cases and boxes can certainly cope with that much weight - in fact they can cope with dramatically more than the weight of one sailor,...
Sorry, I was unclear. The claim that I was addressing was Carlos' statement that a heavy boat surfs faster than a light boat, because the heavy...
You have not demonstrated anything, because headsails and mainsails have different geometry and tasks. How many boomless-main boats have you...
R, I would love to have less vindictiveness on this forum - I only do it response to those who use abuse as their stock in trade, because of the...
If you agree that a Baroudeur will not beat a fully crewed 73ft maxi of the same era then you're implicitly agreeing that the claim that the...
These claims are untrue. Many sailboats do NOT "imitate the look of racing sailboats". Earlier you stated that "imitating highly competitive...
But the air particles in a jetstream move whereas the water particles within waves themselves move slowly and not at the speed of the wave, so...
No reasonable person would think that the idea of loading 200L of seawater is a "exaggeration" because it's an idea that has been used for over 50...
Like you I'm here to learn, often by checking on claims made by others that don't ring true. Yep, as you say boats that look generally the same...
Not only that, he claims that it reached speeds higher than the world's fastest maxis of almost the same design era seem to have! The Baroudeur...
1- I know my limitations, and one of them is that I'm not great at maths. My mathematical limitations are offset to some extent by extensive...
Yes, and the boat I was on when we lost the mast had a fixed keel of probably over 2 metres. It was still an uncomfortable and almost dangerous...
