Because AI is talking bollox. The National letters refer to the National authority the boat is subject to, not where it was built, and in the...
OK, you say taking lessons, so number one advice is to pick the school and go with their recommendations. In most places the schools have thir own...
Not really, no. In more serious conditions it may need to be one to bail, one to sail (well control the boat anyway). The trick with using one...
I think what you'll find is that by the time you've done all the work to engineer the relationship between righting moment loads, rig loads,...
You could move the mast forward and keep the shroud base the same if you gave her vestigial winglets. OK, this is far more winglet flare than you...
All sails pitch the bow down. There's not an intrinsic difference between pole kites and sprit kites or even no kite at all. I suppose one could...
Best not to have much of a bow wave to climb. Shoulders basically means some of the beam carried forward with convex waterlines, as opposed to the...
It does indeed, and the lowest wetted area is a fully immersed half sphere. But, important as wetted area is, in all put the lightest of...
An awful lot can be achieved now. When I built a carbon rig for my IC that was a little bit too soft it was almost impossible to run out of...
A lot of your requirements are about the rig, rather than the hull. Most of the "Book of plans" type dinghies have pretty awful rigs. So you need...
http://j22.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/J22-Class-Rules-2022.pdf MODIFICATIONS The keel shall be of moulded lead to the building...
The class rules specifically prohibit changing the shape of the keel, so moving the max thickness would be cheating.
A club footed self tacking jib would be one way of dealing with tacking issues. Still have the problem of the mainsail spar clearing the forestay...
Well, if you want to take up boat repair as a hobby, which many do, although they tend not to vocalise it, it sounds like an interesting project....
Back around 1997 I built a boat something like a larger version of the Moth above, but with a wider hull and wings with buoyancy in the ends. I...
As the man says, don't stress about it. Its never a bad idea to have a swivel pulley for the lead that goes to hand. As for the rest, it hardly...
It also precludes learning from other people's mistakes, which I submit are the best mistakes to learn from. For instance something I have...
This is pretty much the refrain that all of us who've experimented with radical rigs join in with. The theory we had in the 70s and 80s predicted...
Folk *vastly* exaggerate the importance of mast and daggerboard position on small boats. As well as all matters of trim as mentioned above, you...
Its not the boom I would be worrying about so much as the hull side. The Magno is roto moulded boat and not over stiff. Are you going to get...
