I would like to restart this thread about slender displacement-type hulls for light wind windfoiling. It stopped a few years ago and I don’t know...
How about compensating for the lack of left/right symmetry by introducing forward/backward symmetry? This would solve the issue of an offset mast...
The last posts in this thread discussed "sustained flight", with Kai Lenny surfing downwind. This more recent video shows him taking "11 waves in...
After nearly one season of sailing the whole family is satisfied with the little dinghy. The most important modification during the season was the...
New spars During winter new spars were built to replace the weak bamboo sticks. Starting material was tiling battens from the hardware store. Two...
Free!Ship-File and Coordinates Here I try to upload the .fbm file as an attachment. The coordinates of bottom, bow, sides and transom were...
Thank you all for the inputs regarding a new mast. You seem to confirm what I also suspected after reading "Higher performance sailing" by F....
Choosing a new mast For Sunday afternoon windfinder.com had announced 12 knots with gusts of up to 19 knots, i.e. perfect weather for some...
Rigging and first trials For the beginning I built a simple rig from materials I had at hand. The whole boat building story started about a year...
@ JSL: "I don't know how old your kids are or their experience but it might be a good idea for an experienced adult to test and trial the boat...
Rudder The rudder has a NAC0012 section, 195 mm chord at the water surface, 185 mm chord at the bottom end, and draft is about 520 mm. The core...
Foredeck The cockpit floor was covered with carbon cloth (linen, 160 g/m^2). Before the front compartment was closed, attachment points for...
Cockpit floor When drawing the lines of the cockpit (see post # 3) I intended to use a single plate of 3 mm plywood as floor. The centerline of...
Rudder gudgeons "It's easy, you take a block of polyoxymethylene and you just chip away everything that doesn’t look like rudder gudgeons"...
Buoyancy I planned to build two separate, closed compartments below the foredeck and below the cockpit floor. Both should be big enough to keep...