Laukejas: You can go to my blog and see some of my design work: http://perryboat.sail2live.com/ I am not scientist I design with all the math...
Can you post a two dimensional sail plan? Two dimensional lead calculations can be very misleading ( no pun intended).
Apparently the watertight door to the engine room off the swim platform was open at launch. Probably not a good idea with a stern first launch....
Fact is Kim and I gave it very little thouyght initially. We just called the boat "the sliver". Soon we began referring to "the sliver project"....
FRANCIS LEE IS the Sliver project. Same boat.
Ok, I know this isn't exactly cutting edge foil analysis but if you are interested in the history of production boatbuilding, especially as it...
Frank FRANCIS is a salt water boat. The red cedar strip planing is sheathed inside and out witha layer of glass. The intended use for FRANCIS is...
Hey Frank! Long time no see. I see you are still a zealot for your boat. Good for you. Some of things you say are quite whacky and incorrect at...
tdem: Many thanks. I will update my blog this week with what I think will be the final installment of the Baba story. I didn't initially intend it...
FRANCIS LEE won it's second race yesterday. First to finish and first on corrected time. Not to bad for a cruising boat. We flew the big, masthead...
Yoby: Then you have a great looking boat!
Here is another MS that is being built right now. It started life as one of my cartoons. My pal John walked in the office and started talking...
Kim forgot the radar reflector he got free. The first time we sails FRANCIS there was a very loud and annoying "hum" from the aramid backstay. It...
Sky: In up to 30 kts AWS I held the tiller about 15" aft of the tip. I just rested my fingers on top of it ( I think Kim has a good photo of...
Thanks Yob. Here is a stern shot. This is not my typical canoe stern but this client wanted more of a canoe type stern rather than the Valiant...
Phil: Main hal comes back to a winch on the cabin trunk top, stbd side. Jib hal comes down thru the cabin trunk, thru a clutch, down to a turning...
Petros: My client, Kim, is a long time student of yacht design. He grewe up cruising in his parents Dragon Class sloop. He has owned a Swede 55, a...
406 views and four questions? This place is like a cemetery. I suppose you'd rather discuss Reynolds Numbers for five days. Here is some reality...
My problem was that kept forgetting that I could not steer the whaler when it was in neutral! I'm a slow learner.
This motor sailer sails very well. [IMG] [IMG]
