Sorry not really multihull related but I know there's a couple of knowledgible posters here on Gaff rigs. There's been a bit of a virtual bar...
Just revisiting my old favorite boat, the F16 beach cat and one of its quirks is the ability to incline the daggerboards 6 degrees. There is a max...
Hi, I' having to repair a 8m carbon mast that has had the slot for the sail cut too wide and poorly as in not straight vertically ( we are talking...
Where's the best free storage site for photos that this forum can 3rd party host from, Photobucket is now charging and others like dropbox seem to...
Hi, Whats the optimum mast angle on any racing boat such as a small Tri. Thanks.
Farrier has his dagger boards running at quite a slack negative angle from in front of the mast, to beyond the CoE of the sail area ( to get the...
Gosh didn't realised just how advanced cat design was....
In my innocence and nievity I think that the mast compression created from purely the sail will be same total compression force whether you hook...
Just coming into setting the rig up on my TC601 build and I have to start thinking about the mainsail and how to reef it. Bare in mind the sail I...
What is the optimum prop depth for an outboard on a small 20ft Tri such as the TC601, just fitting it out and at this stage I have to mount the...
With the recent advances in carbon manufacture and the now quite widely available stock carbon tubes at not that high prices, is it time we...
The thread on the under 20' Tris has become so distorted by the dominate foiling issue that it is now serving no real purpose other than the...
Has anyone got a 3D dxf file of a F18 hull I could use, I just want to compare a number of hulls for volume etc, it will save me having to measure...
Looking at building a very small tri based around windsurfing gear and sails that I have laying around this coming winter. Basically a modified...
OK the buzz is that L Foils or near equivalent ( uptip ) are the way foward. But everyone then complains that launching and beach handling are...
To date despite extensive research on the "tintanet" I have yet come across a researched foil shape for rotating masts and soft sails combo at the...
I have been wondering about an idea for a very long time that a proa style catamaran, particularly at around the 16ft mark, maybe a better racing...
OK looked and read the very long threads on foils, in particular the fully submerged type on the moth. With the multihull however it seems Bruce...
Can anyone recommend a simple free programme to calculate the downward mast loading at the base of the mast or better still can anyone do the...
Has anybody done any in depth design for a Hobie Trifoiler replacement, they are a great machine, but built like a tank and have speed...