Basil Greenhill - The Merchant Schooners James, The above, two volumes if my recollection serves, include detailed deck plans for West Coast...
A word of caution, if I may. If you plan to reuse the gear on a new hull purely to save money; it would be significantly cheaper (in my part of...
Embarrassed Thanks Mr. Efficiency
The OP doesn't give much detail of the prospective boat or its use. It would be best to ascertain more details, propulsion, location of use etc,...
Some alternatives... Alex, The advice from Par to get current plans supported by a current designer is absolutely correct. Materials and...
Umut, I think that you are considering sailing a Minuet type craft in rather busy waters. I sail a 2.4m boat in crowded waters, but nothing...
The model appears to have only three layers. This will restrict the amount of information which can be captured by taking the model apart. Taking...
Jammer, Thank you for that. I raced the X's clinker built sisters - The Victory Class as well as Dragons and Yinglings. Alfred Westmacott's...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Jammer, Would you deny that the picture on this link is beautiful?...
Patrick, In summary, you have been “Press Ganged” into designing a sailing craft but you have no knowledge of the subject, and probably little...
You're right about the freeboard, in my opinion, it is far to low. A keelboat of this length should be capable of going into coastal waters and...
Another design to consider - The Sandhopper This is the shoal draft version of the National (UK) Squib. http://sandhopper.org.uk
Red Bull's YouTube "Is this the future of sailing" For those who have posted to the thread pointing out the extreme elitism of those pushing...
Timber, I can't say I know much about site selection for Olympic sailing in 2016. Was the pollution ignored originally, or was a clean-up promised...
Fair point Wet Feet. The great local classes, dinghy and keelboat with which Britain is blessed, Loch Longs, X-Boats, Victories and the more...
Thank you Waikikin and CT249 Both your entries are very much appreciated, and reassuring that there is some merit to this discussion. The...
Wet Feet, I absolutely agree with you about the health of recreational sailing. If sailing ceases to be part of the Olympics it will be both...
Messaging to go with strategy If the 8 point strategy above has merit, and no one has completely blown it out of the water (yet!) it would need a...
I550 is a great boat Timber - there are lessons from your promotion Timber, Thank you for your post. The I550 is a terrific looking design,...
David, thank you, that is a good question. The advantages of development classes, for those whose only interest is in sailing are (1) good...
