Sorry to join the discussion so late, but I have been away sailing. I have cruised Belize and Guatemala (both coasts) and Mexico's Baja. We had...
The top photo looks like a Falmouth working boat dredging for oysters, back in the pre Brexit days when it was possible to make money and sell...
sorry to say its a long time since I last raced a N12, before you were born in fact. So cannot comment, except to say you haven't given enough...
you mean like on a beach cat. Very common on thousands of bigger boats as well. Certainly up to 80ft or so. And lots of trimarans used mast...
contact Richard Spindler at Latitude 38. he owns Profligate a Hughes 63 Richard Woods www.sailingcatamarans.com
10 knots on a 10m powercat is only just over the hump speed. So it would be best to either aim for displacement speeds of under 8 knots or go for...
you may find this article useful especially the bit about rocket science Sailing Catamarans - The Ideal Pacific NW Cruiser (a Skoota powercat!)...
Like myself, Ad Hoc, Bajansailor and Tansl are full time, fully trained professional designers. Dan is a very experienced boater and home builder....
The sensible thing to do is buy a used Catalac, sail it for a season and then you'll know what changes to make. Or maybe you have already done...
I knew the Lacks well, and also the designer they used as he was at college with me. There's a lot I could say, but to save time. Start from...
check eg here Foiling radio control trimarans https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/foiling-radio-control-trimarans.55840/ and anything by Ian Holt RW
A friend fitted leeboards to his cat. They banged and rattled a lot when sailing, even worse at anchor. The Stiletto 27 started life with a...
Rob Denny did one years ago. And a Twins 36 built in UK about 20 years ago. Later changed back to conventional rig. 2000 Custom Twins 36 Catamaran...
Obviously neither of us knows much about engines! And so rely on others. (I often talk to Tim Poustie but he's in Vancouver). I'm in a slightly...
I read that the EFI would be better across the range. But then I may have read that here from David, and he says its a guess...... But on the...
Thats a really nice boat. I didn't see any sailing, just in the Auckland museum and club dinghy parks. Pity there are none in the UK. We have the...
I have a friend who was your age a couple of years ago and he did something similar. Plywood shell carbon over. I helped him do sea trials with...
Cannot usefully comment except to say that when I used a similar steering oar/paddle the tiller was at 90deg to the rudder. So it was a push/pull...
If it starts to crystallize put the container in a bucket of hot water for a while and it will liquefy again and be quite useable. Some people use...
Twin 200hp outboards and only giving 17 knots implies to me its a big heavy boat. (Over 40ft over 8T??) So almost certainly semi displacement (or...