In planning to build a foiling beach cat, the rigging is the least of your worries. For starters - you probably won't even have a vang! I would...
Is it a Flying Dutchman?
The answer is... it depends. It depends on several things. 1. Is your cat fast or slow. A full pilothouse suggests leisurely pace and therefore...
The Opti already has a tendency to push the nose in. Adding sail up high will accentuate that when sailing downwind. The effect on other points of...
The article loses credibility by describing "A" as "sleek". Clearly that vessel is not sleek. It is an abomination.
Yes - it wasn't a huge crowd. Best viewing was from RSYS deck with hospitality from Landrover. I scored a joyride on one of the boats before...
Doug, your attempt to link the two events is obvious. You cherry picked a short segment of footage that you thought supported your previous...
Doug - you are misinterpreting what you are seeing again in order to attempt to support your erroneous understanding of what is happening here....
You are taking a lot on trying to make a hybrid drive train as well as integrating differential steering into this craft. I can't comment on the...
Looking at the angle of the sheet and the angle of the boom it seems pretty clear that they can't really pull any leech tension. Twist will be a...
My experience with Torqueedo was a bit disappointing. Admitedly it was with one of their earlier models but I found the lithium battery pack had...
The misalignment between the hull and the plate looks like a source of drag to me. I think the plate is probably a misguided attempt to increase...
Well done! Neat video presentation too with speed and tracking position shown. The waterstays really do hit the water quite a lot - even the...
I can't quite tell but it looks like a bottle screw in there - which is exactly what I was thinking of. I think the other name that it could be...
My guess is that the float will have some kind of receiving structure for the stub of the beam which allows the float to slide in and out to...
Just a thought - did you make the waterstays somewhat continuous through the main hull? It would seem structurally advantageous not to require the...
As above - it isn't a halyard in the traditional sense of raising a sail from the base of the mast, just an adjustable strop to accommodate a...
Those beams do look awfully small compared to their length. Presumably you have water-stays and other braces to help keep the platform in its...
Boat building often takes longer than originally anticipated. Make a conscious decision about whether it is more important that you build a boat...
It may not be possible to source a compatible top section (I have no idea whether they are a common profile) but in that case, it would probably...
