It’s because they are so wrong on so many levels except popularity.
Have a look in the Buccaneer 24 builders forum for a boat called Capricorn. He built gullwing beams to replace tubes and wire.
I repaired one back in the day, broken from the slamming, chopper gun lay up, scary.
That and it’s about as aerodynamic as a brick, built with a chopper gun etc etc etc.
Well you know what they say. “Gentlemen don’t sail to windward”
“As Redreuben says they have some aluminium boats in WA that they call “pills”, Lol. “Aspirins”
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Id be looking at a used carbon windsurfing mast perhaps ?
Its a forum not a search engine.
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It’s for the privacy of separate Tardi (And I wanted to write Tardi)
Two Tardis’s, Tardi ?
Guzzi nailed it with “yawn” I’m out.
So another riddle ?
Same poster has non answered the Port hole thread.
Probably a better method would be apply DB from both sides overlapping in the cut out.
Gut Feel. Cut hole, rebate and radius core enough for 4-5 layers of uni around cut out and cover with one layer of Double Bias (150mm) and peel...
And it’s gone.
EXACTLY ! Assumption is the mother of many a screw up, including that the builder knows more than the designer. So many overbuilt boats because...
It’s a race driven thing, slicing through the chop stops pitching rather than bouncing up and down shaking the wind out of the rig, faster but...