What a lovely place to keep a yacht :) I like the thread, anyone else have photos of their tidal backwaters? It's a wet winter here so pictures...
Perhaps a couple of Guys could get together and experiment with two beach cats of the same class, rig one with a comparable A frame mast and sail...
The swan is fun (but I would not want one!) but I find the catamaran just plain ugly and why would anyone want a boat with wrinkles, but as I said...
'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' but pretty it aint :(
There must be a chicken related boat name there :)........ Rooster ?
Boatguy, thanks, for some reason I'd skipped that page, found the link. Mark Gumprecht designs are interesting,and his carpentry looks superb.
A very interesting thread, as someone who has rowed, motored, tipped over and sworn at many a yacht dinghy it's good to see people addressing the...
;) Schimmer ?
"No Dan his uncle replied. there isn't such a thing as a cat-schooner. the name of a rig which has two masts of about the same height and no...
Gosh! a Hi-tech Kankama rig :) that will keep Phil happy.
I like the rendering of the new deck house, now listen to the others and just get rid of the mizzen and you are almost there:) I sailed on a...
Hi Alan, Well at lest you now know what you've got to work with not much but it's a start :rolleyes: Have you roughed out the 'Pod' drawings or...
Go to it, a cat for a princess, fingers crossed for the dive. 40 degrees in my dreams! Stuart
Yes ! Certainly worth giving it a go, as you say what have you got to loose, it will be interesting and one in the eye for the B.....d who...
I assumed this was always more of a 'daysailor' type of yacht, with possibly the occasional night aboard or maybe week down the coast if the...
Is there any benefit in the Crowther shape of bow where the lines below the waterline are fuller than those above the waterline, 'bulb like'....
Interesting I see what the designer meant when he said that the folding system was complicated. I certainly wouldn't be able to describe it...
Patterson small tri lines ? [ATTACH] I was looking at the John Patterson Design website and noticed that vertically along the page of his...