I like the reduction in sheet loads. My way was to use a full wishbone, which I still love 21 years later. I think the engineering of the system...
I remember the boats being built and talked to the designer about it when I visited him. I asked him about the bustle at the stern as it reminded...
PS, as for Ackeman - my cats have ackerman but I sailed on a really nice fast cat with no Ackerman at all, but if you cut off your little tillers,...
Sounds cool. The closest arrangement to your I have seen close up is probably Fantasia - Andrew Stransky's fast 50ft cat. She also has transom...
Thanks for the detail Michael. The sharp D mast was developed by Frank Bethwaite and used on the Tasar. Frank found in tunnel testing that the...
Gday Michael I went to your website to look at some pics and I saw two different versions of the rudders - one underhung and one on the transoms....
For those who want more room in the hulls, some flare can be good. In your diagram you show that the flared hull allows bench tops each side of...
Great stuff
As has been said above - stand on the shoulders of giants - there will be enough to worry about without reinventing laminates. My cat was 600gm...
I think Wayne is onto something there. I built my cedar cat on the typical male mould and had the problem of fairing with no interior laminate on,...
A couple of points as I built a 12m trimaran - a Newick we switched from cedar to foam. The foam seems way too thick. We used 12mm foam for the...
Thanks Oldmulti about the basalt. Bucfan - I just went sailing on my first Scarab on the weekend and whilst it was a nice sailing boat, I think...
I think Rumars is onto something here. For those of us brought up on lovely sailing racing dinghies, off the beach cats and yachts, sailing a...
I like the term Corley. I think that many people see their boats as consumer items, much like we see fridges and couches. I think that 4wds have...
Gday Tom 2x4 I acknowledge that today's boats are good in many ways, but like you I would love a retired designer, like Jim Brown, to tell us...
I think I have already written about the problems of the Spectrum 42 hull shape. I copied the idea of the Spectrum in my little cats and with...
Cheers OM. As for Carbon and stuff, maybe I should get right into it. On Sunday I was sailing Kankama to Sydney with my son who is cruising her...
I love this thread Old Multi but I would caution anyone to use sexist stereotypes in boat sales. I closely know about 7 women who sail. My wife...
Okay Old Multi - I must be a grump, there are some interesting things about this design, not that I would want it in a million years but the Ikea...
One part that is not shown by the numbers is the rounded bottom of the amas. A boat like this one with very flat ama bottoms will be rather tiring...
