i had some carbon ones on my moth, couldnt justify putting big stainless ones on somehting that i tried so hard to keep light. laminate the piece...
kevlar is great, right up untill you have to do something with it. horrible stuff to repair or work with. you say a 4*3' area is pushed in? need...
should point out that sometime boatdesign member 'phils' won an a-class "worlds" using a sloop rig in the 70's. 'Harmony' was the boats name....
i still follow this thread, god knows why, but now there has actually been an inteligent question asked ill chime in. PI, initially the...
the membrane thing, is, as far as i can figure out, they way they tighten the wing tramps. the tramp has a boltrope type of system at the deck...
centre boom sheeting using the same traveller (shortened) off the cabin top?
best form of flaps are mylar or xray film stuck on with double side tape at the top, bit of vaseline round the edges will help the leaks, but...
Honestly Frank, How do you come up with this stuff? I dont pretend to think for a minute that you actually believe all this stuff, Yet at the...
i think he is talking a basic engineering book like a RL Norton, mechanical engineering design, or j e shigley, machine component design, i picked...
right on cue doug, right on cue.
dear HWSNBN please go back to wherever it is you have been hiding since april. do you think that any of us actually care about what you write...
dont bother. what youve described is cutting or modifying every si ngle part of the boat. Anyone whos modified bats knows its always more effort...
if we do that its morelikley that a mere mortal will be able to afford it.... To be honest im not really interested in super maxis, even maxis...
if its not a cat its a dog... (or if its not a skiff maybee)
good call that one, the whole talk of how high performance a maxi moni is really irrelevant when you consider how much faster a raft is. the fact...
