Sailing World posted a photo of an America's Cup boat's traveler. It appeared to be curved with the centre of radius somewhere up the mast. To...
All the recent fast boats have chines. But, my old girl has a round bottom. Is it feasible to bolt a spray rail to the hull (above the DWL) to...
My micro-cruiser is in the shed for the winter. I've been completing some epoxy and glass projects. For every hour of glass work, I seem to have...
The shrouds on my trailer sailor are attached at the hounds with pins and split rings. I'm considering using bolts with nylock nuts for...
[IMG] This is the famous NACA inlet. Is there an equivalent development for outlets?
Check these photos of a 1988 C&C 30 MkII. She is a very pretty boat. But, she has some wrinkles in her hull that I don't understand. There is a...
I took this photo from a very long distance while sailing to Grand Bahama from Fort Lauderdale on December 02. It's been cropped to eliminate a...
Is anyone else having difficulty connecting to americascup.com? I get an "OPEN or SAVE" dialogue box with an obscure file name. Or, I get a...
The discussions around heeling a scow have typically mentioned reducing wetted surface area for more speed. Wetted surface area would definitely...
I'm sure this is an old question because I did a search and was overwhelmed by the list of results. It's easier to ask again than it is to read a...
Volvo vs Barcelona I've been haunting the Volvo Ocean Race website in preparation for the start less than a month away. The reporting has been...
The original rudder blade on my micro-cruiser was a trapezoidal slab angled back from the rudder head. The leading edge was radiused and the...
Take a look at my small boat in the attached pic. The literature claims that this boat weighs 1200 lbs. A sister-ship was weighed on a highway...
I'd like to read ISO 11812, but the $164.oo price tag is a deterent. Is there a more economical means of obtaining this document?
I did a search of threads with keywords BOW SHAPE in the title. Zero matches. Has this not been discussed here? Here is the question. Are...
I've been grinding my way through one of the very long foiling threads on this forum. I'm getting consumed by the hype. I now want to put foils...
If I'm not sawing, drilling, filing or sanding, then i'm not making my boat any lighter. Depending how quickly you can turn the pages of the...
Listen carefully. At the end of the Canadian sailing season, I conducted a rig tension test. The shrouds were tensioned far greater than I...
She's only a little boat and she gets trailered a bit more than some. I changed the shrouds from 1x19 to 7x19 halyard wire a 1/2-dozen seasons...
What is the significance of the Longitudinal Centre of Buoyancy (LCB) and the Longitudinal Centre of Flotation (LCF)? Should they be at the same...
