grazie
just tought I'd show the finished product. I luanched her this summer. I ended up with a balanced lug about 135 sq.ft. She performed very well....
Petros Thank you. that's my plan. I'm not reinventing anything here. I've based everything off of other boats. I just wanted to make sure I was...
using this formula SA=(LWL*beam on WL)*(2.0 ... 2.4) I get 150 to 168sq.ft. for my boat. It looks like I could and maybe should increase the sail...
Often the crew will be just me and I'm not interested in winning races. The sail area is 132 sq.ft. and it's centroid is 10'-1/2" above the DWL. I...
any thoughts on if this rig could be free standing or one stay forward?
great! that's what I was wanting to hear.
Thanks. I was hoping there was a simple solution for a simple hull. Here's the boat I'm designing, a 15ft LOA open family daysailor. She will have...
is there a formula for calculating how much sail area a boat can handle?
problem solved. thank you everyone for your help. It turns out that I had the solution all along and didn't know it. Thanks to Eric, I realized...
thanks Eric. I'll give that a try
Thanks. I tried the 3D object converter(no go).
I recently recieved 3 files from a customer with a .srf file extension. He thinks they are 3D hulls. Does anyone have a program that can open them...
the beauty of the freighter canoe is that you can push them with less horse power and use very little gas
the strips are just edge glued, so you would need to find a glue that works a 40 degrees and high humidity
The original 18 foot stripper has a rocker of about 1.5" That boat handles great in river current and can still be paddled like a canoe. I also...
26 feet! wow! go big or go home are you asking about the rocker on the plywood boat or my original 18' freighter?
the 20ft plywood hull would take about 8 sheets of 12mm and 3 sheets of 18mm marine ply plus glass cloth and maybe 5 gals. of epoxy. It would be a...
here's a plywood version in it's early development. The hull design is done, but I would need to expand the panels and create the sheet layouts...
here's a link to a tutorial. there are several methods that work involving loft thru curves or sweep rails, depending on the type of hull....
