here is post #5, where I acknowledged that a kayak with traditional sailing rig would be more practical. This is the point where abandoned the...
basically what he said. Plywood's big value is shear strength. Cut it into strips and it is weak in many ways. A solid strip would survive impacts...
several posts up I had mentioned a conventional kayak with out rigger is more practical, and we went off that way at least as far as I was...
OK captains obvious. What starts out as lighthearted spitballing of ideas gets drug down to that same dismal space. I'm not making hulls out of...
Proa? :D
looking great Rob! @Othmar this is just the next of a long series of designs. Those questions were answered long ago.
Maybe put up a sketch of the thing for me. I am not a boat designer or builder, but I do my own design/fab lightbulb moment things. Some of my...
Thanks, so many people will provide disinformation regarding these things. It is difficult to understand the motivations, but what you say makes...
Much of what you put into post #2068 has been on my mind, namely don't mess with things that not only work, but have been proven on many different...
The high load line of XPS is more costly, but has much greater compression and flexural stiffness. The highload 100 is 4 times stronger in...
Lots of features like that one, all fractured up and waiting for entropy to finish the job. Some of the ones I know are poised over roads!!
if it's a park the red tape is in leaving the boat there and not getting it out of there. That's truly a shame for a relatively recent project.
@Dejay there will always be a need for a bow ramp landing ship to move the heavier iron about. The structure of the proas is far from optimal for...
@guzzis3 we have similar width with no signage across the whole country. If I want to go across state lines with a wider load I would need...
Thanks all. The Woods discussion on hull shapes was most informative. The main takeaway I get is the faster cats are not going to accept extra...
Yes the Skua's round bilges do not lend themselves to easy trailering especially when compared to those flat bottom dory hulls. I have more metal...
It does help, thank you. I was looking at the 9 meter skua by Woods. It seems to fit in that 8~9 to 1 ratio, has round bilges and looks relatively...
I can tow in my state up to 11' wide with a monthly or annual permit and no pilot cars. The trick is crossing state lines.
Given equal WL, the less beam on a cat hull will have a better ride and performance, at the sacrifice of living space? The racers take that to the...
I am very familiar with kayak handling, that one dad built I was in every summer in my youth. Canoes, not so much :) Still it bears thought....
