What "well balanced old classics"? Contemporary reports of many old classics (ie Dorade, Nina) state that they weren't well balanced when driven...
I'm sure it's relevant to in a boat design forum to try to find out how a certain design is performing. I was surprised because I thought the Ace...
I can find results for the Ace 30, a scow designed for IRC racing and costing 250,000 Euros which is a lot for a 30 footer - the First 36 is...
What does that mean in reasoned discussion? Where is the actual reasoned evidence that cruiser/racer scows are better balanced in longitudinal...
Where is the evidence that (1) a scow doesn't also have its C of G forward of the CF; and (2) that having the C of G forward of the CF is inferior...
Why? Where is the evidence that even given those factors, a scow is better overall (to the extent such a subjective judgement is possible)? Is a...
But does the cruising sailboat imitate the racing sailboat? When the Folkboat came out, for example, the Swedish racing sailboats were Skerry...
Sorry, by that I meant "mainland" Europeans aka "Continentals" - I completely and utterly agree that the UK's heritage of and contribution to...
The 420, 470 and Lark all have much narrower sterns than the wedge types I was talking about, so they benefit from getting the weight aft. The...
Well, the iron law seems to bend a lot! For a start, the French shorthanded events aren't "the most famous regattas" in most places of the world...
I can't work out why scows are coming into fashion in anything outside classes that have big rigs and short overall length limits. Just take one...
I'm always surprised that Bolger was surprised how well his sharpies sailed, since race results and rating schemes show that they were very slow...
A fast craft can't afford to point low in terms of apparent wind, because its apparent wind is so far forward that if it points low it will just...
But Skene is wrong. When overall length is the restricted factor, many boats with fine bows win races. Look at Moths - the last scow to win a...
That's not true. Many of the top designers of foiling boats use rules of thumb. "Rules of thumb" are outstanding when it comes to work out what...
