Looks good, but dagger foils (lifting, leeway and steering) are an accident looking for a place to happen. They add a lot of weight and cost to...
[ATTACH] Nothing wrong with a stayed mast sitting on an unstayed mast. It gives stiffness, bend control, less weight and less windage compared...
Cut 20mm thick pieces off the sides of the big piece, then spot hot melt glue them together. Should be able to use a thinner blade so less...
Suggest you do it sooner rather than later. Etamax are flat out in both the design and build departments. Peter (Etamax boss) really knows his...
What Groper said, particularly re experience and practice. An alternative to double cut foam is to use strips in the curved areas. If the curves...
Slowly. Telescoping trackless mast works well. Had a couple of sails, broke the rudder mounts, which I am currently rebuilding. Info and video...
Well worth a call. Otherwise book a holiday in Australia and I will take you for a sail in Bucket List. Agreed, but it is harder to make a...
I agree with your attitude and reckon the easiest (probably the only, but you will find that out as you get to the costing and weight part of the...
Thanks. It is unusual for people to actually read about proas and assess them on their merits. Upwind, proa motion is different to catamarans as...
Agree about the ketch, but I have used unstayed schooner rigs and agree they do not work like a jib and main, but they do work well on all points...
Sailhand, where are you getting your PET foam? Dennis, The benefits over ply are definitely there if you infuse the foam. Assume two 12m cats...
That is, or should be, a partial quote. I did the same, and many other tests, many with lighter laminates and could not replicate what Derek...
Certainly should. Some of the lightness is attributable to it being a harryproa, some to Intelligent infusion.
Short sail on Sunday. Not much breeze, not much speed, but with a deep reefed main (21 sqm/215 sq') and a loose halyard, it got along ok....
Not long, I suspect, but that is half the fun of designing and building something unique and near the limits. It is also a result of having the...
Tom, Gus, Doug, Thanks for the kind words. Kentaro, An updated version of the boat in the video could be built of ply, but would be...
Something else to consider. In High Performance Sailing, Frank Bethwaite describes some testing he did of small foils behind a planing motor...
4% of sail area is a lot. I envisaged the support being above the bridgedeck floor, so you would have a lot more than 6". For sure the balance...
A central centreboard has the following advantages: 1) Kicks up in a collision or grounding. Even if it none of the other advantages applied,...
I can't think of any limit. Wishbone booms are almost as much of a boon to cruisers as unstayed masts. No traveller, multipart mainsheets, lazy...
