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OldMulti, I want to complement you on this thread. You have contributed a wealth of information to us all. I'm the BigCat guy, but the money for...
You will be surprised at how much of the skin is covered by fiberglass bonding bulkheads and furniture to the hull.
Weight of a loaded cruising boat plus use in waves and swells.
Oram designs such catamarans.
If Mr. Haig thinks that is all he needs, he is just at the beginning of many, many woes.
It seems like a nice weekend boat. Without dimensions it's hard to be sure, but it looks narrower than most sailing trimarans, with a roomier...
I sailed many offshore miles with a balanced rudder hung from a full keel, with a bronze heel fitting to support the rudder shaft at the bottom of...
Double ended catamarans are noted for pitching and slow speeds. Also, a little separation between the LCF and the LCB reduces pitching. If we...
Boat design is harder than it looks. If you want to design your own boat without years of study, you are making a mistake.
Hi, Markusik I can't find an article I remember, but it was an analysis of a damaged, grounded carbon fiber mast. The conclusion was that there...
The shorter your mast (s), the flatter your sails, and the less your boat heels, the less weather helm your monohull will develop weather helm...
Most people would describe a mast with no stays or shrouds as free standing. I'm not sure what you mean by the comment that the loading of sails...
Yacht designers use the working rig, that is, fore triangle and mainsail in sloops. CE changes little with foresails that overlap mainsails.
They essentially said, keep the mainsail luff above the leading edge of the keel - with reference to fin keel sloop monohulls. Sailing catamarans...
I have seen many post their opposition to an unstayed rig, and none of them had experience of an unstayed rig. I built a monohull with two...
I sailed a boat with a Hasler designed junk schooner rig across the Pacific, and I liked it. My masts were solid, and I used my lighting...
