how does the sail track revolve around the mast if the boom and sheaves are ?
Epic legendary little boat, has its own thread on here Buccaneer 24 Builders Forum...
I guess what I'm reacting to is the 3 and 4 layers of diagonal planking, we never had the luxury of so much timber ! Double diagonal was usually...
CavMk2. I’d call that rather overbuilt compared to Aus wrc build methods.
Got a bit of a "Twiggy" look with the arched beams.
With free standing masts on a bi rig, no storm jib on inner forestay, no headsails no screecher no code zeros no asymmetric or even symmetrical...
Well What’s the boat ?
Sure but in a kick up design the surface area can rip the rudder off the transom.
I did a bit of Google research on rudders and boards with with no end plate effect a while back now, with the object being to have a single board...
And again your the supervisor. look at Richard Woods clients most but not all choose the simplest hull, dory or chine and the simplest method for...
Yeah Rob, but you’ve been a professional builder for how long ? Not first time builder working alone and starting from scratch staring at a set...
All this talk about ply v foam seems to have missed a few things. Tooling and skills. Now I grant you a foam carbon boat is a better boat, skip...
Look at Richard Woods, by Walker do you mean Waller ?
The nature of joining things hinged or demountable or sliding or adjustable is always complication. In my time as a fibreglass laminator the...
I was wondering if Rob had come to a final conclusion on telescopic masts, seems a project fraught with complications but I live in a bridge...
I suspect the main limitation would be the grp skin rather than any particular core material
Eli, you like the biplane rig, so what is your sailing experience?
If your considering S glass then maybe look at Basalt.
This is true, and usually takes the form of applying wax coats on one after the other without adequate drying time between coats. Four coats of...
I have not experimented with compounding, my reference to complex shapes and filleting refers only to making moulds in flat planes as in internal...
