keel jehardiman, Thanks again for your thoughts. I've seen & been on SF bay and your right, it can be a real wash-machine. Your experience...
keel Par, Thanks for sticking with me here. The Long Beach, CA one-design fleet has done some reinforcement...I hear there is some pretty...
keel PAR, Thanks again for your thoughts. I have checked everything on the calhome site as well as the cal25.com site. The wobble is...
keel Thanks to all for your thoughts so far. jehardiman, I understand what you're saying & this is why I'm looking for comments...
forgot One more question...do you think it would make a difference if the repair was done while the boat was in the water or blocked up with...
There was a post a while back about a sailboat that had an internal keel that wiggled on a Gladiator 24. The Cal 25 was also mentioned as having...
useful past post Mike D is no longer with us, but his words are. He had a good post on this about a year back:...
less than I thought On www.abebooks.com the book appears to be going for $60-$100 USD AbeBooks is a good place to find many old books (it's a...
I started the Fishboat Conversion thread some time back and, after looking at a number of commercial boats, decided to pass on this effort. For...
I just received an email from Mike D's daughter that Michael passed away on May 7 from a cerebral hemorrhage. I was the recipient of one of...
George, Order the tools up & have them overnighted to me. I'm leaving the US headed for The Netherlands (Schipol airport) in two days(leaving US...
Michael, As I remember there was one specific designer that was literally the dreamer, the architect of the craft & the project head....much like...
Mike, That's the one. I saw film of it being tested sometime back. Talk about a 'boat' kicking up a fuss on the water...whew. This craft was...
It appears that Hinckley is basically using their money to bully other builders into making design changes. Smaller companies, or companies that...
hooray! Michael, THANK YOU! You are a fountain of terrific information. The base case in the spreadsheet are the numbers on a boat I'm...
If you're looking for something new, look to something old. The Russians developed a similar, though MUCH larger, ground-effect craft like this...
Mike, Great reading and very helpful. You covered a similar speed/power topic for planing boats in another recent post. Above you've given a...
coating thickness tester Try http://www.bykgardner.com/html/byk/index.html We use their equipment to check paint coating thickness on...
Guest, There are many builders of lobster / cape island hulls that will finish to any degree from bare hull to fully fitted yacht. Here's a...
I'm sure there are quite a few NA's around the NE/NY area. The first one that comes to mind is Dave Gerr..I believe he's in New York city.
