I've changed my mind again, for about the thousandth time. For a while there I was planning to have little footwells behind the cabins for...
I'm building a smalll simple cruising cat. I was lucky enough to get a Nacra 5.2 rig for cheap, and that's what I'm using to power the boat....
In my new cat, I want to place the daggerboard box through the cockpit side deck, for several reasons. This seems to be possible, since I also...
I'm starting construction of a simple dory-hulled 23 foot cat. The design calls for two stringers, in addition to the sheer clamp. My plan is to...
The other day an online acquaintance very kindly pointed out that a firm in Germany appeared to be trying to sell plans for the little 16 foot...
As I may have mentioned, I'm about to start building a 20 foot cruising cat. The boat will fold for trailering, so the deck must also fold. I...
Okay, here's the basics; I'm drawing a 20 foot cat to use a recycled Nacra 5.2 rig. This will be a folding cat, with a sailing beam of about 12...
In my opinion, it's the difficulty of folding them in a way that is as simple and fast as folding small trimarans. A number of ingenious...
The new little cat I'm drawing has a central "spine," necessitated by the method of folding the hulls I'm using. As I understand it, there have...
I would have said no, from my experience. I've owned two cats, a Wharram Tane, long ago, and more recently, my little beach cruiser, Slider.\...
How feasible is this? Derek Kelsall uses single rudders on his smaller cruising cats, I understand, but I assume this is a rudder on the...
I finally got to take Slipper, my 14 foot cartoppable cat, for a test sail. In general, I was relieved by the results, though she's too slow in...
How much buyer resistance is there to the idea of assymmetric multihulls? In that category I would include proas, which I think have had little...
Am I wrong or has this design niche fallen out of favor? Most of the material I've seen on the web is a little elderly. I'm hoping Richard...
I just posted a new base camp article on Slider's blog. This one was suggested by Dave Bolduc, of microcruising.com and Little Cruiser fame....
A while back I was thinking about how to make my web site more generally useful to the boating community and hit on the idea of reviewing places...
Just a quick note to let you know that I've published a new piece on Slider's blog. It's mainly just a speculation on what kind of simple wooden...
This may be a bit off the usual subject matter, but when you come across a sailing video on the web, what sort of things do you hope to see?...
I just posted an article on Slider's blog regarding this subject. It's a long piece, but stated briefly, my claim is that if you want a...
For anyone who might be interested in my 16 foot minimalist open cruising cat Slider, I've put up a small website at: http://slidercat.com/...
