Paine's design was earlier by a decade or two.
I think you are tying too hard with your hinged door on the ballast tank(s). A feed tube from a thru hull (with seacock) will do. You will also...
You can always try to find some free software: http://homepages.ipact.nl/~martijn/links.html
AFAIK, there is no reason that the a boat cannot be set up with a masthead rig with a small foretriangle, expecially for cruising. If the rig is...
Masthead rig: a) well suited to a non-tapered extrusion, b) well-suited to simple, stiff rigging, c) maximum size headsails. Fractional rig: a)...
Check out Colin Mudie's book Sailing Ships, and some of Chapelle's books, e.g. The Search for Speed Under Sail. Without doing any research, I'm...
Sure, there are a lot of trailer sailors but THE MAN SAID HE HAS A SEVEN FOOT BEAM RESTRICTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, so your advice is...
I think the comparision to a Sunfish is a little forced, but I admit a little bad faith in mentioning the Wabbit since it would be very hard to...
Wylie Wabbit!!! http://www.wyliewabbit.org/specs.htm Building Selway Fischer's Go Go Girl from scratch would be quicker and better than your...
I agree with all the foregoing, discouraging advice, but I think I see your problem: all the likely alternates have beam greater than your 7'...
Which features of the 12 1/2 are you trying to duplicate? These boats are very docile in strong wind and rough seas, at least as compared to most...
There one of these (or a near sister) for sale up the street. $250,000. Rawson 30? Sea Sprinte 30? Baba 30? Cape Dory? Great Dane? It's...
You might find Tom McNaughton's comments on his Penny design interesting: http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/disc5_toc.htm Among production and...
I suppose eveyone is biased by his local sailing conditions, but the concern about comfortable motion in such a small boat seems excessive to me....
My crew and I were looking at a Hunter 28.8 on the dock nearby. I commented that it was more of a big jib/small main boat than I liked. She...
There are many boats with keels of similar design in my local boatyard, the difference being that instead of a flat end-plate, there is a bulb...
The Scheel keel is workable and practical. To say more requires comparison to some other fully described alternative, which could be...
Compared to many of the alternatives, the Scheel keel has a minimum risk of damage in grounding or of getting in a tangle with pot warp.
I have not drawn any diagrams, but I think I have have a glimmer of what you are suggesting. Two boats sailing tied together, sailing almost...
Designer Phil Bolger puts wings on rudders all the time. He says that, to him, a rudder now looks naked without one. If the pivot axis of the...
