Interesting you put that piece from Farrier just after the one on the Scarab, the very design I suggest he is pointing his finger at. I agree...
I don't know about Raku's but Schionning Wildernesses use large layups of unis in their beams. Old Multi has the layup of a Schionning like cat of...
Friend of mine took 5 years - every day in the shed apart from about 8 days off a year. Nice 1320 Waterline. That works out to about 14 000 hours....
Okay - now you have me interested. Some of the interior pics are of Dan's Seaclipper and he used to have a Wharram - A Pahi 31 - IIRC but he sails...
This little tri is very similar to Dennis Lobb's Rhapsody which was a 41 footer. Same proportions and style.
If you look at the picture where Gulf Streamer is in the snow you can see a rather shoddy piece of engineering, in fact the whole aft end of Gulf...
That beam does look a little strange. I don't get why you would build a beam this (with so many shear webs) unless you were trying to get a beam...
I based the folding concept I use on my little cats on Wired and Robyn Chamberlin's cat Excess. In some ways the use of a simple beam structure...
I don't know if I have attached this before Coastal ogre but this is something on fatigue. You really won't be able to tell the fatigue limit of a...
As you have shown before in this marvellous thread, there has been a wide variation in laminates on similar sized boats. One thing that is also...
Thanks (again) for another great series of posts. I am interested in the stability curve for the Bieker proa. It must be one of the very few...
Making a daggerboard using this method can create a strong board. One problem is that you tend to make a nice fair cedar blank and then put glass...
I like ply a lot. I have used it in all my multis. I think it is great until it needs stringers. Then use foam or cedar instead.
Thanks again for the posts. Just a clarification query. With the cedar laminate, you wrote Biax. I have always called 0 90 fabric biaxial. I was...
The killer is that you need close fits for all the strong glues apart from epoxy. What would I do without fillets, epoxy beds under bulkheads, and...
