Fascinating... I must admit I'm not long on ideas here. If you can manage gopro type video from a camera on the rudder post that might tell us a...
My number one bit of advice would be to start small. If you're going to get a boat that's big enough to live on you'll also need a tender for it,...
1-2knots faster and 5 degrees higher is an awful lot... Richard's right, try the sail the other way round and see if the behaviour swaps sides....
Back in the 60s, when (in the UK at least) of the beach multihulls were at probably their peak of popularity, there were quite a number of...
That's because its a "How long is a piece of string" question without a meaningful answer. As CTs photos of those splendid Int 12s demonstrate its...
Bit of a struggle to claim that the tools used for all sorts of other aerodynamic work are unproven theory. But the main reason I find Mikko's...
That depends on whether we would rather accept an unwelcome truth, or cling to any myth that supports our preconceptions... The latter is...
To be honest that's simply rubbishing something you clearly don't understand. Its all to do with the interaction of mast and sail. Its explained...
Don't believe there's any such thing, but some do absorb a lot less than others.
You can get stronger self adhesive tapes than nylon spinnaker tape. But the big question is whether you can leave the corner reinforcements...
I fear you're stretching things a bit CT. The question would surely have to be whether there's an appeal or anything else that means the rules in...
Doesn't that seem like very carefully chosen phrasing: "The owner was of the opinion that..."
Well I dunno, I can (and have) pick the foil up, take it home, and rebuild the trailing edge with the aid of some carbon and parcel tape covered...
AIUI the first Laser prototype used spars made from ordinary commercial aluminium tube. I think Chris is overstating the case just a tad though,...
No, and one off secondhand purchases or "stuff lying round in the garage I bought 20 years ago" would seem to be by definition not available to...
Its tricky... It seems contrary to discourage the use of secondhand kit that is both cheaper and better quality than what one can make oneself,...
The problem that will have to be solved for wing sails to be widely used is not so much usage as storage.
Roughly speaking the gunter rig on smallish dinghies provided most of the advantages of a fractional bermudan rig, but with spars that could be...
Wikipedia nonsense yet again. The Mirror (et al) do have a sliding component.
I've always thought of a gunter rig as lacking a throat halyard, but that probably only applies to the smaller ones.
