To answer your question, generally, no, fat-assed boats are NOT faster upwind, or rather, they could be faster in boat speed, but they don't point...
Hi Gnioco, Welcome to the forum. Chances are you are not going to find any stock designs for ocean rowing boats. You can find links to boats for...
Basically, yes. A fence at the tip on the bottom will prevent cross-flow off the tip, and thereby minimize the tip vortex. The smaller the tip...
Some mistakes are just too much fun to do only once!
Abdelrhman Shah, Ad Hoc gave the explanation above. At small angles of heel, the righting arm, GZ = GMSin(theta). And also at small angles,...
Yes, and that's a dirt cheap price, too! Eric
Thanks, I think this boat will do us well. Our dream plans are to do trial sails to the Bahamas and the Caribbean over the next few years, then...
INW, basically what the responders so far are saying is that stretching a 22' design to 30' is basically starting with a whole new design....
Thank, Sam. The kick plates are brass, actually. The rounded moldings look to be milled out of solid Kauri. All the interior trim is Kauri, as...
Thanks! Never--it stays with the rig it has. Had I the money and time, I would opt for a slightly longer cat ketch, but this is a very...
I now own Corroboree Over the last few months, my wife and I have negotiated the purchase of the very first boat I was ever commissioned to...
Which is as I stated earlier--"The best aesthetic designs have that certain "je ne sais quoi" that simply cannot be defined, restricted, or...
Which is the vast majority of boats, and certainly in the range of what most people would want to take offshore with limited crew. Eric
Mike and Alik have pretty much hit the nail on the head. There is no one absolute value for any given boat--each boat will have its own desirable...
What info do you need? They act in exactly the same way as spreaders on a mast, or as bowsprits on the bow. They increase support of the mast by...
In a normally stayed rig, the spreader bases and their rig attachments are considered pinned connections. That is, they can allow the mast to...
Roger that. If in your redesign of the rigging to swept-back spreaders, are you also thinking of removing the backstay? If you are, then you...
Actually, you are probably correct that fiberglass would be a suitable material alternative for spreader construction, given the numbers that you...
It is difficult to comment on your observations because we don't know the overall dimensions of the spreader. Typically, there should be a...
I don't see anything wrong in your work, and your results are as expected. Typically, we expect a propeller to be only 50-55% efficient, and...
