If I read the book correctly, then according to Morrison et al it wasn't even simple technically. The design is so extreme as regards L & B as to...
If you haven't already seen it obtain "The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship" by J. S. Morrison, J. F....
Most things have been tried. Asymmetric wings have typically been disastrous on racing craft, although of course the outright 500m speed record...
You'd have more trouble finding a solid wing sail without at least some of those features. In the C Class catamarans especially the typical wing...
It was all an example of the fundamental contradiction at the heart of that rule. There seems to have been an aim both to rate every boat fairly...
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That at least is straight forward enough. In this country we call them radiator brushes or radiator rollers, available at any DIY shop and...
Try working with the boat turned on her side before doing anything more drastic. It makes a surprising difference.
If not more so. But I think its fair to say that in general its not regarded as a problem in the same way. I don't know of a box rule class where...
Type forming is just a somewhat pejorative term for evolution. Evolution towards an optimum design. Its born out of the myth that its possible for...
The textured finish that's been used full sized only works if each groove in the texture is the right depth and correctly aligned with the local...
People think about leeway in completely the wrong way. Its not really the boat slipping sideways in a parasitic way, its the necessary angle of...
A decent polar diagram ought to be including "leeway". Personally I don't much like the term. In all sailing craft lift produced by the rig...
I don't get involved with such things, so I don't know, but for unrolling the jib to be a bigger load on the sail than the wind provides would...
It seemed to me that, for a proposed international event, a lot of the concerns it set out to address were parochial USA ones that international...
If you got lucky you might be able to arrange for the spreaders to act as supports for the folded mast...
For your purposes its not very critical, about half way up the spar would be good, because you're just aiming to support the middle. Spreader...
Normally large amounts of downhaul will open the upper leech. If its genuinely over rotating though then it marches to a very different drummer....
Are you sure what you feel is a ridiculous amount of vang really is? Some rigs do use big loads. And are you sure you are pulling on enough...
The load from the sail will tend to end up as compression, because your nicely triangulated and well placed shrouds will stop it going anywhere...
