Sorry I'm having trouble with the geometry of this:) If the mast bends aft, Doesn't the distance from the head to the clew decrease? You are...
Wow that is very helpful feedback. I don't know the measurements off the top for the old rig--but I can get them. I haven't done a drawing of...
That's no fun! I actually have several books ( Rigger's apprentice, sailmakers apprentice, boat data book, skenes' elements and a dozen...
Jeez, like blood from a turnip...but I ain't giving up yet. So if you were making a dream boat or if the owner said hey whatever...why would you...
Ok, there's a thought. For you designers-- when do you think of putting a fractional rig on a boat? What questions do you ask yorself to make...
Yes, but cutting the top two feet would be the same at moving the forestay up to the mast head--but of course then you'd have to move the...
This should be called the unvarnished truth about rigging design. I have the same (though not nearly as extensive and frustrating) experience....
I've been scouting for a mast for my 25' boat which was dismasted--and found one. orginally it had a mast head rig, single spreader--nothing...
