Sorry, by that I meant "mainland" Europeans aka "Continentals" - I completely and utterly agree that the UK's heritage of and contribution to...
The 420, 470 and Lark all have much narrower sterns than the wedge types I was talking about, so they benefit from getting the weight aft. The...
Well, the iron law seems to bend a lot! For a start, the French shorthanded events aren't "the most famous regattas" in most places of the world...
I can't work out why scows are coming into fashion in anything outside classes that have big rigs and short overall length limits. Just take one...
I'm always surprised that Bolger was surprised how well his sharpies sailed, since race results and rating schemes show that they were very slow...
A fast craft can't afford to point low in terms of apparent wind, because its apparent wind is so far forward that if it points low it will just...
But Skene is wrong. When overall length is the restricted factor, many boats with fine bows win races. Look at Moths - the last scow to win a...
That's not true. Many of the top designers of foiling boats use rules of thumb. "Rules of thumb" are outstanding when it comes to work out what...
I can't agree with that. Look at the Minis and 40s - they are all boats with comparatively short hulls relative to their beam and SA. Take the...
Probably still wouldn't be drawn for a boat that isn't oriented towards downwind sailing with a big rig. The other thing is that the reason they...
Cheers. At 8ft and with a considerable displacement, you'd have far more stability than something like a Hobie 14 or Maricat 4.3, which have much...
This forum used to be frequented by Steve Clark when he owned and had built the world's fastest small craft,the wingsail C Class cat Cogito. Maybe...
If it's ideal why don't the world's top sailing craft use them? Windsurfers can easily rotate their foils (and hulls) to windward to maximise...
A sail of that size on a power cat will barely move it. Reality proves that the optimistic claims for the (alleged) advantage of fixed wings over...
For Minis, they're fine. But the point is that Minis are unusual boats (huge rigs for their size, very restrictive class rules) on mainly downwind...
But as a boat heels it tends to take on assymetric waterlines which lead to weather helm, which is surely a "hydrodynamic imbalance". The rudder...
That was just a simple collision caused by Satanita having to avoid a small craft. There's no account that I can recall (having read a lot about...
Wow, I really do have to get my act together, get that board some new centreboard case gaskets, and put it on the water. She hasn't seen her...
Are there any sails that will achieve the correct shape and depth for a fast tri when partly furled?
The idea of sailing a small craft in actual 50 knot winds is basically a fantasy for anyone not a leading edge pro. True 50 knot winds are very...
