Great looks, and I bet she's a nice dry ride in waves. Alan
She seems to aquat a bit in the video, and this with an empty boat, so what happens when you load her up? The hulls seem to be completely flat...
Similar thing happened up here last year. Turned out it was operator error, they forgot to mount the pins that lock the amas in the open position!...
Impressive work Hi Francisco, Great with the videos showing the tank testing on your site! Can you tell us a bit more about the idea behind...
The current standard is ISO 9001-2008. Can you show us an ISO 9001 certificate stating that RB Boats is certified to design and build sailing...
Dangerous low quality work by RB The photographic evidence on the beam troughs is shocking! This by a company that claims to be ISO 9000...
I made use of a spreadsheet where each and every component is plotted in, also its 3 dimensional position in the boat. The actual setup you use...
Speak to the guys at Colligomarine about longevity. Chafe can be avoided by design. I would expect at least 8-10 years. The weight of the mast...
Oscarvan, may I suggest you get in touch with the original designer, and speak to him? The Danish built Dragonfly boats have a very good...
Get your builder to quote you for the stuff that is heavy, or difficult to ship. 50k USD for rig and sails is a good budgetary figure. It...
I think a lot of innovations are out there and proven, but not many combined in the same boat. I think that boat buyers are inherently...
What about this? 3 steering positions; fore and aft cockpit as well as the saloon. Optimised hullshape to minimise drag above 4 knots yet still...
I bought an Iroquois Chieftain that had this kind of setup, it was a roller furling forestay mounted around 80 mms out from the mast. There was...
If you try an analyse the boat market in SA, I think you will find that the biggest market is trailerable boats, both in value as well as number...
Please keep your comments coming. I plan to go and have a look at this stuff sometime soon, so your comments give me good questions. As I work...
Here is a swedish manufacturer, they have a good reputation and reasonable prices. http://www.ometall.se/eng.htm Alan
Terhohalmes spreadsheet gives some good guidelines, but there are a number of things you need to decide also. I analysed plenty of cats, and...
First you find the CoE of the brown spots, then you draw a line between this point and the wet spot on the opposite side. If you intersect this...
I would suggest that you find a few people who are in the build stage now, or have been, there are some in your area. Talk to them, maybe spend...
All design is a compromise, and I agree about getting up to a good cruising speed fast, and not bothering too much with the high end speed....