Val, your concept of ocean going on a reasonable budget is not practical with today's technology as many on this thread have said. In my opinion...
Joe Dobler Hi NORDVINDCREW, I have been absent from the forum for quite a while and just started to look at your thread. Very interesting!!! I...
Hi, you might try to get a copy of Dixon Kemps Yachting and Boating Manual, republished by Wooden Boat. This has the lines and offsets for three...
Apex, I did read the whole 19 pages before I posted my comment. You may be an experienced designer but you shure as hell are not very helpful to...
Hi, I suggest that all readers of this thread look at page 223 of Hasler and McCleod's book "Practical Junk Rig". The boat shown, "Sumner",has...
Hi, back to the original subject of this discussion. T cubed's assertion the an Itchen Ferry style of boat makes a suitable small offshore cruisng...
Hi Tcubed, as discussed in my previous submission, I believe that you are sincere and honest in your statements and that your detractors...
Hi Boston, have you looked at the Kettenburgs in Southern California?? They have some similarities to the boats that you are looking at and are...
Hi, have a look at some of Joe Doblers designs. He was a pioneer of stitch and glue construction in the USA. Just do a Google search. You may...
L Francis Herreschoff's Ticonderoga has to be in there somewhere. She won the Transpac several times and posted a record crossing that was...
Have a look at Hasler and McLeods book Practical Junk Rig. This will give most of the information needed to gauge if a boat is suitable for the...
Blondie Hasler produced a 46 foot design with many similar characteristics, to the 60 footer that is the subject of this thread, to compete in...
Hi, sounds to me like you are going to need a support vessel with a motor strong enough to tow the raft out of any dangers it may encounter, and...
Hi, the attached is the sail plan for the 14 footer I designed and built back in the early 80's David
Hi Steve, I have sailed on two boats about 35 years ago with through the mast boom furling systems. The first was a charter boat, an Albin Ballad...
What else do you expect when the competition judges are totally unqualfied to judge a design for a boat. Even when the design is judged by...
A rig that I have found to be very practical, easy to set up and easy to sail on this size and type of boat is a balanced lugsail cat ketch. The...
have a look at Dave Gerr's book The Elements of Boat Strength for builders, designers, and owners. This book synthesizes the formulas and...
Hi, in my younger days about 40 years ago I owned a 19 foot itchen ferry and she was timed at ten and a half knots over approximately two miles...
Hi, the mast appears to be buit up and the straightness of the checks could be delamination at the glue joints that has been bogged up with...