Interesting. I switched my old boat from skeg-hung rudder to spade and suffered the same issue under power. I assumed it was caused by the shape...
What year/model? I haven't done much time on Jeanneau 36s but most of the earlier ones were OK downwind as far as I know. What was the nightmare?...
Marketing claims from commercial parties are not proof of anything. A vendor showing a guarantee is not convincing at all since they are normally...
The sailboat won that race, which indicates that the illustration above is not correct. If the rotor had anything like the efficiency it claims...
Yep. Eons ago I got a similar-size mast from an Etchells for a few hundred bucks. It had broken at the deck but a splice fixed that and I still...
At least the spoiler on the car could give you somewhere to put a coffee cup while you load your shopping. A turbulator mast on a cruiser wouldn't...
One of the AC guys did take it up, 54 years ago. No one bothered to replicate it. That says a lot.
Good questions. Nope, the mast is not that critical. The benefit from a bone standard stock mast to a hyper-complex specialised one is something...
It's stupid to claim that other people are "insane" because YOU need a comfortable backrest and YOU need help to stop falling into the water....
Why not? For most craft there is no evidence of a significant performance gain from the aerodynamics, but we know that there is a significant...
I don't wing, but the winger I normally chat to about design is sure that there is a significant inherent advantage in the longer, slimmer design...
Here in Australia they are called "raised deckers". I think it's the same in the UK. In the USA just look up what a Cal 24 is called.
Hood 20 hard chine version, no doubt about it.
Yes, as noted in the earlier thread the Hood 20 was made in round bilge and chine version, and that is a chine version. Adam, the chine version...
Just put up a pic at first. It could be a Hood 20, which came in both hard chine and round bilge versions. There are a also few "Cal 21s" around...
Aahhh, that explains it. The difference is that around here, and as far as I know in most places, an assymetric IS a spinnaker; it's a breed of...
Without wanting to be too much of a downer, it can be said that the possibilities are limited significantly by the physics of the Laser and the...
Having rudder blades that lift is completely accepted. The most popular yacht in the USA (and perhaps the world) has a rudder that pivots and...
Yes, horses for courses. And yes, ignoring a downside is logical since all boats are compromises. But the OP seems to ignore that some horses suit...
With respect, many of us love spinnakers for short handed cruising and racing. They make sailing downwind a lot of fun. Spinnakers aren't there...
