Thank you groper and Carbon Pirate for your thoughtful replies! This interview with Mike's lab about building kite and wing foils has great...
Thank you for the thoughtful replies. FYI; the Nacra 17 and A-class sailors have been inserting hydrofoil dagger boards from the top for the past...
The foils will be nearly identical in appearance to the Nacra foils which can be viewed in the link above, however they will be 20% bigger in...
I am looking to build flattened V-shaped dagger-board lifting hydrofoils similar in design to the Nacra 17 Olympic foils for a Supercat 20 tall...
These forums would benefit from more science and research and fewer unsubstantiated opinions. In the first few pages I found these opinions about...
I have developed a Freeship model of an 18' catamaran I would like to build. I am considering building a mold plug by either: A. CNC'ing...
I am designing a super-light beach cat that will be built using folded flat sandwich panels for the above the waterline hull superstructures...
Erwan, This topic of optimized beach cat hull shape I find very interesting. I hope we get some posting. Here are some of my thoughts: I am a...
"No, they don't affect resistance calculations." Thank you, That is a relief. I noticed that some (most?) starting seeds result in...
Leo, Thank you for the tips. I went through my mlt files and made the corrections suggested and most of them began working properly averaging...
I am having trouble getting the design speed averaging routine to work properly. I need to optimize my sailboat design over a wide range of...
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Carbon and wood side by side is redundundant To use carbon on the same side of as a 2-ply wood veneer would be structurally redundant and heavy....
PAR- And which statements in particular are not accepted in the usual engineering respects? I am a P.E. in mechanical engineering with only a...
What about using thin wood veneers? I am considering building an ultra-light sailing beach cat with either ply/foam/carbon or ply/foam/ply for...
I am designing an ultra-light sailing beach cat with what I hope will be increased durability. Many ultra-light beach cats constructed with...
