Well, I got a positive response from some of the Quick & Daring contestants, and the instructor from the Wood Technology program thought some of...
Well, the festival starts tomorrow morning, so this comes a little late, but I've made some copies of the rules for monohulls and I'll see what I...
Say, has anyone signed up for the Wooden Boat Festival on Lake Union in July? It seems like showing up with at least a couple boats would be a...
I use Delftship, then use the coordinates to do it in Freeship, which will generate the forms. The advantage of doing it in Delftship is that it...
Yes, it's a great looking boat. How is yours progressing? I'd love to see some pix.
I've given the design parameters a lot more thought, and my latest thinking is to design a somewhat slower but more practical boat: [IMG]...
Why didn't you extend the stability sponsons all the way to the transom?
Someone here got a ticket for exceeding 7 knots in the ship canal in a foiler Moth. One of the Buchans, I think. The Zest trimaran looks more...
Why not have the same dimensions for the cats as the monos?
It has been done. Alcort built about 1,500 of the "Catfish," which was about 14' x 6'. [IMG] It was harder to cartop than the Sunfish.
Without the rule about hollows, it wouldn't be at all hard to design a catamaran that's faster than a monohull in the 14' x 5' box. Resistance is...
If you build one in 3 mm okume, you can cartop it.
Thank you, that's very helpful. I've been playing with a number of different designs, and may or may not use the catboat design when I finally get...
The two boats already in the water are built in underlayment. How well does that hold up? When I researched it, the stuff was rated for interior...
I think the original Laser rig was built with irrigation pipe. I'm thinking the people who have already put their boats in the water have...
You see no difference between racers and builders combining efforts, and paying sailmakers and boatbuilders to make the racer? I think there is...
So, the best strategy would be to find an old wooden International 14, calculate the cost of the lumber and Dacron, and bring it to the race course.
See post 1077. Most of the builders have assumed that the cost of having a sail built for you counts. Have you priced a new suit of sails for a...
Well, you might find a club that uses 420s to teach, they would be more like the boats that have been built. Or you could join informal races,...
That's a pretty major change in the rules, if you only count the cost of sail material and not the cost of building the sail. I suppose that if...
