You could drastically improve downwind control on a boat like that, by installing a rudder on a skeg at the aft end of the waterline , at the...
My 31 is 26 years old. Maintenance is about an hour a year. The trick is wheelabraded and primed steel , primed with zinc rich primer from...
How big a boat? Major weld failures on boats under a certain size, even those done by beginners , are almost unheard of. In nearly 40 years of...
What I find extremely hilarious, is seeing PD Wiley spend months doing what he could have done in a few days, because someone told him "The hard...
i have worked with a gantry and overhead cranes at times. While it may be worthwhile for a larger boat. I haven't found them worth the time for...
Gerd only began building his Yago after buying my book, which he will confirm, as his postings on the origami site confirm.. Expect many more...
Origami means reaching the shape by joining the edges, without depending on the use of frames. I have used this " non existent" method for the...
If hard chines amidships, below the waterline only, and thus out of sight, with fully rounded conic ends, is ugly, then the way to make them...
I have no faith in anyone with a pre detrmined bias against origami boats, giving an impartial analysis. Their conclusions will inevitably be...
"Not everything which can be counted , counts, and not everything which counts, can be counted" Albert Einstien.
I keep getting blocked. Some one wants people to believe only expensive, labour intensive boats ,which only the rich can afford, are the only...
My response was blocked( censored )
What is dangerous about how to build boats that have cruised 30 years and hundreds of thousands of miles without a single structural failure at...
The bottom line on any design is how she sails and have there been any serious failures. Anything else is far lss relevant. Best get this info...
