That pic shows one of the great problems with a dead flat bow section. When a boat heels like the Mini 6.50 is doing in the photo, the effective...
Why do you claim that the Satanita/Valkyrie collision had anything to do with pitch and yaw control? Jay, the professional skipper, and the...
1- It is simply incorrect to say that "imitating highly competitive sailboats has been the iron law since 1850" and it's an insult to sailors and...
1- Please stop being dishonest by claiming that I am being contradictory. I am NOT - I am merely discussing the effect of the inevitable...
A number of windsurfers held a number of world speed records. But they certainly don't have everything you need for a small mono-hull sailboat...
That Henseval design is very nice indeed. He's done remarkably well to fit that much space into a boat that looks so nice.
Ahhh, very lateral thinking. :-) I was Googling that coastline, it looks like a great place to cruise with a beachable boat. Lots of little...
Have you ever sailed a boat with the extreme "wedge" planform you are proposing? You speak a lot about surfboard design. Have you surfed much?...
To be blunt if someone can't pull up 6m of 6mm chain then they are probably not fit enough to be sailing much. If weight is a consideration and...
Me. It's ugly. One other thing I note is that even displacement powerboats from my memory typically have much harder bilges than the vast...
So you haven't seen the boat; haven't sailed the boat; haven't sailed anything like the boat; and yet you claim to know where the record-breaker...
Yes, it's hard to tell whether they slowed for comfort or not from the information available. As someone who owns five wingmasts and a whole lot...
I always thought she was a fascinating boat, and I think I remember building a cardboard scale model as a kid. But while she may have been "cut up...
So the Pahi can do 9 knots upwind and yet allegedly averaged about 2.3 knots upwind VMG on the passage that was mentioned? I've never sailed a...
Oh, and furthermore - re "total logic snap" - grow up, stop acting like a stupid child and using moronic insults on a discussion forum about boat...
How much time have you spent sailing a Tiger? How much time have you spent sailing a comparable craft? How much idea do you have about how a...
Car manufacturers invest far more than that - however that investment is not proof of the claims made by those involved in producing the cars....
Do you understand the concept of objective data? Sorry to be so blunt, but you keep on producing press releases from vendors and related bodies as...
1- The theoretical results were validated in that they show the rotor rig produces as much power as they claim, BUT the theory is disproven...
Experimental proof-of-concept of an energy ship propelled by a Flettner rotor Elie, B, Bognet, B Boileau, Weber, M , J-C Gilloteaux et al. ...
