Not in any case if my memory of long ago lessons serves me correctly. And I also make the area of the example sail 132 sqft (assuming a 90 degree...
Well I have used standard grade industrial anodised tubing for a boom, and while its gloriously cheap, proper spar grade alloy is heat treated to...
Well, on a small enough boat the weight disadvantages may not outweigh the extra work of fabricating hollow spars, but for my money that balance...
Oh gosh yes, I hadn't spotted that properly either. That's a mighty big ask with that aspect ratio. I guess it's done in every modern airliner, it...
I haven't got any photos from when I ran a wing mast on a stump I'm afraid (it didn't last long - the tech available to me in the early 80s was...
Not in my experience. Loads coming from battens and sailcloth are orders of magnitude smaller and not a problem. Test ship for a scaled rig...
IME the inward loads from the kicker can be phenomenal, and make mast rotation very difficult. A conventional solution is to have the gooseneck...
I don't believe you should be ignoring the rudder either. In practice, on dinghies anyway, rudder and centreboard are both taking sideload, and if...
Its both. What you're used to tends to look better, so if you want to sell dual purpose/cruising boats they ought to look mainstream, whereas top...
A common way to rig these are to attach the lines to the underside of the gunwale at the centreboard, and have them long enough to go across an...
I believe the idea is to try and get the rig to blow downwind of the hull, since if you scoop the crew with the rig to windward the boat will as...
No, not like that at all. In that one person stayed at the bow, which doesn't really work when it gets really serious. The crucial bit...
http://tasar.org/the-tasar/tips-advice/righting-the-tasar-after-a-capsize/
Inversion is not necessarily a bad thing, often the reverse. A boat floating upside down won't drift off faster than you can swim and provides a...
Nice Job Couple of quick thoughts - I tend towards "off the boom" sheeting as well, more or less given up on having a block on the floor. However...
In so far as anything is transferrable in ideas from the big multis, which is debatable, its probably more realistic to think of them as being...
Advances in materials, construction and handling make fewer larger jibs more practical.
It depends... I don't think I've ever come across a boat that won't sail at least across wind with just a jib up. The challenge comes in...
Am I right in thinking you're talking about a wing keel with a large span, maybe approaching beam of boat? The 1987 Americas Cup was the time...
On River boats in the UK with a frames the a frame is arranged so it's a permanent fitment and is shaped to match the curve of the deck - ends up...
