The obsession with streamlining to make the bridge deck cabin appear smaller and more streamlined than it really is strikes me as an aesthetic...
This topic has popped up here and elsewhere repeatedly, with the same objections repeated again and again, some I feel are valid, others less so....
There seem to be a fair number of people with ambitions to do extreme voyaging in very small boats. Among the more interesting is Sven Yrvind an...
I've never been fettered by convention or conventional thinking. My favorite designers have always been outside the box because I'm inclined that...
My interest is in catamarans for a number of reasons, probably the most important being a bridge deck cabin. It means that as a solo sailor, I...
The Pacific Proa has the ama on the windward side, and the Atlantic Proa has the ama on the leeward side. I have wondered if anybody has built...
Last summer, I concluded that the easiest way to do the amas for the canoe trimaran I'm getting ready to build....... slowly.... was to simply...
I've been trying to pull measurements from a paper drawing that has longitudinal stations shown from which I and derive a scale in order to build...
I'm planning to build a pair of 12' long amas for a canoe tri using cheap 3 ply fir marine ply. They will each consist of two sides, which will...
Hydraulic drive seems to have a bad name when it comes to efficiency.... This is mainly due to the way they have been built, rather than inherent...
I'm an advocate of free standing masts...... They eliminate a huge number of potential failure points, and the additional material in the mast is...
Most yachts have what is euphemistically called a "life raft" in a cannister designed to deploy.......hopefully in an emergency and give you a...
I did a rather mad experiment this morning of compressing ordinary Dow blue XPS foam, which I believe to be about 1.3 pounds per cubic foot,...
I'm wondering about techniques to eliminate the need for stringers. One aspect of foam sandwich construction has always bothered me, and that's...
I've been looking at some of Rob Denney's innovative design features on his Harry Proa designs, and am quite impressed with is outside the box...
Looking at two catamarans, the Sagitta, and the KD 860, they have similar dimensions.... The KD is about 2' shorter, the empty weights and loaded...
On my current canoe tri project, which I finally started, I'm looking at using several types of wood, and both marine and non-marine plywood...
I've started a canoemaran project from an old fiberglass 16' canoe I've owned many years, but was damaged when loaned to friends.... basically...
I've been wondering about the use of the mizzen sail on a yawl for sheet to tiller steering , and/or directly as a balance sail. My plan is to...
I'm planning to convert a Searunner 31 to a free standing aluminum mast and a split cambered junk rig. The mast will be located forward of it's...