I need help determining the scantlings for a solid wooden mast to be used on an outrigger sailing canoe. The main sail is a 100 square foot...
A couple quick questions: Does rounding the trailing edge of a foil near the tip reduce or increase tip vortex? When does an endplate...
During our cold and rainy season here in California I left the boat project in the garage while I focused on other tasks. I didn't check back as...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cesarminoru/protei-open-hardware-oil-spill-cleaning-sailing-ro It is an interesting project with an admirable...
I am interested in true twin keel designs. It seems designs incorporating them have had mixed success based on my reading of the subject here....
If you were designing a boat from scratch for a disabled, wheelchair using, client on which to cruise, which platform would you tend toward and...
I am talking about where sheets of plywood come together at an angle and there is that "V" shapped gap. On the boat I am building this happens...
If I am coating the exterior of a hull with epoxy that I will later varnish is it still necessary to use a grain sealer? The hull is constructed...
Given restrictions on mast height how would the windward ability compare between single masted boat with a low aspect rig and a multi-masted boat...
I am building a Wa'Apa, Gary Dierking's sailing canoe design, and I am doing it as a trimaran. I want to make some deviations from the original...
Hi all, Last week I posted a question about rigging a sailing canoe I am building in the boat design forum, but unfortunately didn't get any...
I am in the early phases of building an outrigger sailing canoe from plans bought from Gary Dierking. I am building the 24' Wa'apa as a trimaran....
