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Sail reduction on a sleeved sail? Round here we have masts that can rotate so the sail just rolls around it. fishwics
1. I've never seen a Tanzer in the flesh so to speak, but I have pictures. 2. I've done a fair bit of sailing with a gunter rig - it's the...
The bunks on traditional British narrow canal boats frequently went transversely. (6ft 10in beam)
Also try "hungry hikers cook book". It doesn't run to supplies list for a year but there's a lot of trip catering planning info in it.
The only time I had much to do with a WW Potter, it had capsized (I was in the rescue boat) so I'd be wary of reducing ballast!
Not for nothing are racing punts long and narrow - it minimises wetted area. I suspect you are more constrained by payload (weight of customers),...
6 knots might just be do-able with an 8ft boat; even then I'd have worries about the weight of engine and battery to achieve a reasonable...
The strength/stiffness in a beam is given by the top and bottom; the bit in the middle is there only to hold the top and bottom together. If you...
Double-surface soft sails are not actually new - they were around decades ago (Ljungstom, Hasler) but these are probably the most sophisticated...
It depends, surely, where you want the centre of buoyancy of the float. The sail force acts somewhat forward of abeam, depending upon the point...
Yes, The hardwings on the AC75, 45 and 50's are likely to be more efficient No, they didn't make the choice for soft wing sails for nothing - as...
Cambridge University Canoe Club built a foiled K1 kayak in the late 1960s. (Tandem foils with outrigged floats for initial stability). It was...
Do you mean so the two act in series i.e. the output from the automatic feeds the input to the manual one? That might mean if the automatic one...
Unless the boat has sails and the OP uses a prop-driven alternator to recharge the batteries when sailing. I would think though that a clutch was...
