If I remember correctly OTIP worked fine until ... the media copter flew very close, way too close and also upwind to get the special image;...
Agreed. Reduce disturbance at mainsail base. So obvious - but tricky to implement especially on Frog 2. However helm could lie down in shallow...
Yes - most of it went to the tip; however I saved the main beam and am completing Frog 2 - which is a radical catamaran. Never learn?
Pedants are the real life at parties. I'm sure you have heard this before Ad Hoc?
The late Frog with double luff main; boat was smashed on mooring ... but I still have the 2 mains.
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Would have been difficult to place the dagger forward of the cockpit and in the cabin entrance - hence your Hobie 16 type solution ... which...
It is/was a vertical rudder when locked down; but it is hanging well aft in the just immersed position in the photograph. Rudder is still...
Not a B24 but the quite large dagger is theoretically too far forward on this old Nugget; one would expect weather helm - but he tiller was light...
These asymmetric foils transformed this B24.
My shot when working for Kiwi sailing magazines. Mast never rotated properly; stays went to side of hounds area, therefore reduced power, basic no no.
New faired box main beam, new 465mm chord wing mast for 40 year old Groucho.
Beautiful early Nigel Irens design Gordano Goose.
Asymmetric and very fine hulls on CSK catamarans of the 1960s and '70s had a reputation of being okay to windward designs - until they lined up...
Early days on Supplejack, a modified and radical for the times Tennant designed 32 x 18 foot open wing deck Bamboo Bomber, 1977. In this race to...
