there will be no "electrolysis", none! Galvanic corrosion maybe...
Excellent, Sir. (Little suggestion from the "blue-water-side": swept-back spreaders can be a great pain, as can be an anchor roller too close to...
the boat is now in the NL & on thje website you see two pics (bad ones though) of the "strip-plank" construction. They had specially extruded...
Chantal & JG rond de Wereld op de Pinical http://www.pinical.nl/ invented by an Austrian engineer ("Oostenrijkse ontwerper"), didn't catch on though
izza LOT of work! LOTS&LOTS&LOTS! if you are unexperienced in boatbuilding count on 5000 hours absolute minimum
btw:roller furler main? what I presume about those polars: they represent the best-case scenarios, right? best sails, best rigging-tune, etc...
another thought: heeling angle upwind: too much? or not enough (sailarea)?
"10% added weight makes you 1% slower" - sounds way too little for me & would vary a lot for different boattypes ("skimming dish" or S&S 70ies...
a few more thoughts: most cost-effective performance boost: mount a self_feathering prop do you have a bowthruster? with a tunnel? out with it,...
the cheapest (but most unpopular) measure to boost upwind performance in winds >25kn would be to take off the furler & use hanked-on foresails......
"If you have several headsails, drop the genny " - ever dropped a genny of a 36'er out of a rollerfurler in 18kn true? sailing with hanked on...
just theorising: immaculately clean underwater? heavy overload badly distributed ? (lots of chain forward, stern-arch, -anchor,...
"...You usually want a different boat at some time in the cruise to the one you have whatever craft you are sailing...." wise words!!! (the...
" My last ride across the puddle was on a Swan 40 (Frers)." how was that (by today's standards) rather strange companionway arrangement in...
I'm not saying that the present system is perfect (in fact I have to admit: I know zero abt the US-custody/alimony-system & not all that much abt...
dont look at the last 20 years, DRB, look at the last 300...
...at >21m she is not exactly an "inshore only racer"...
this is ridiculous, DennisRB: t 1. this would condone any action of a perpetrator, because "he was forced to" 2. for every father wronged by a...
...yes, a sensible, responsible parent....he should be locked up & the key thrown away!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKusg6Jyc9Y the vastly superior coursekeeping abilities of a long keel...
