Searching for a pdf copy of the Tornado class rules before 2004. Would appreciate if someone could help me out here.
I have seen some images of Peter Quorning´s Dragonfire 28 and the shroud system looks interesting. Both the forward and the rear shrouds are...
I had a similar discussion a few years ago, when I added a forestay fitting to the flimsy A-cat hull for my foiler build. I chosed a bulkhead...
I am building beams for my small 19ftx15ft beachtri using Nacra 5.8&5.5 catamaran hulls as can be seen i n another thread here. Got the idea to...
When we have different rocker on the main hull and the floats, what is the best compromise? To align the sheerline of the bow in front of the main...
In an attempt to exclude a typical rear waterstay on the 2023 beachtri build, I got the idea of running a diagonal DM20 waterstay from the rear...
Got the idea to make use of some of my beachcat parts and planning a trimaran project to be sailed 2023. Will use an old Panthercraft Tornado...
Got a little curious when I read about Williwaw´s bullet fairings. tspeer: "As for foil joints, one might consider some sort of fairing to act...
Got this old Europe hull from the local club and planning to rebuild it to a Lowrider Moth with self draining cockpit. Have done a few sketches...
Building a non foiling Moth mast, I will only use cheap components from the backyard by building the mast using a 6m 50x2mm 6060-T6 tube combined...
The foils I am building has the lower part limited to NACA0012 for the first 30% and then flat. I have designed the foil using the added lower and...
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I am working on a A-cat hull to be used as centerhull on a small trimaran I am building. The project is presented in this thread: Windknife...
Have played around in Excel with the formulas discussed in Aspect ratio for surface piercing foil...
This is off course obvious to everyone schooled in aero- or hydrodynamics. In aerodynamics AR seems to be calculated from projected area. I...
Naval Architect Doug Pattison kindly sent me his technical paper about the trimaran foiler, Force 8, he and his brother designed and built,...
[ATTACH] The text says A-cat, but with center T-foil I doubt it.
In an older thread started by Doug Halsey, Tom Speer recommended using "coke-bottle" fairings at the joints between two V foil members. Suppose...
Did a mock up of the main beam joint I plan to use on my small 100kg foiler. Had to cut the PVC tube rings open to slide them over the 90mm tube....
Interesting concept: https://syra-foilers.com/the-boat/canting-t-foil-system/' [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
