Is this the Wave-rider you are talking about ? http://tinyurl.com/ygveh2n Second place IRC 1/2ton Championship 2009 in Belgium.:)
There´s no need of a carbon rudder stock.... Just take a 35mm stainless steel shaft, weld four strips of 30x4mm stainless steel to the shaft (2...
In German it´s "luvgierig" and "leegierig" :)
I think this is also common practice on modern boats. Especially taking the huge sail areas into account This has nothing to do with IOR.......
Hello Nemo Is it really Weather Helm (strong forces) or is the boat simply loosing stearing due to the fact that the rudder is lifted out of the...
Three points: - Red cedar is very strong in fibre direction, but looses strength if it gets wet. - Red cedar is "toxic". You should cover it for...
Yes, we took a lot of penalty.... At the start of the building process (from Aug. 1982 to Aug. 1984) it wasn´t that bad at all. But we caught a...
No, not at all: I made a interesting comparison of my (build date 1982) old 1/2-tonner with the modern GP33-class: Boat /...
The drawing is a page from the IOR Mk3 (german translation) and propable shows the lines of a typical boat in the early years of IOR (1970). It´s...
Not as complicated as modern formulas, you could in the end design a competitive boat using a piece of paper, a pen , ruler and a pocket...