jdory

Looks like a close-quarters mish-mash, with breathing room amidst. Great Lakes, South shore of Superior, much cozier behind a...

The boom is Kurt's design.. he had some kind of stacker wings also but what I did was my design, closely trying to follow his. The mast...

The flickr album is great! Nice save on the hull, and all the work to finish it up is a testament to patience and ingenuity. Is the...

bingo! Thank you! Yes, it was that boat.. got crushed by a barge in 1994.. sat afterward for many years in a shop I built over it.. and...

@philSweet - Pretty sure the boat is a Kurt Hughes CM design that @jdory built decades ago and is getting back into service. Critiques...

One of my bars is a windsurfing mast. I could not locate a second, so the other one is one I made with carbon fiber.

Scavenging marine parts is the way to go . I have 4 of windsurfing masts that I intended to use for crab claw sails.

a lot of Minitransat boats use "diabolos" from windsurfing masts

Instead of lowering the track you can raise the bar. There are several ways of doing that. The simplest is a bar with curves.

Nice looking boat and somewhat similar rudder steering arrangement. Right now the bars clear the outboards by about an inch, so I don't...

My thoughts as well, but a lower track may get in the way of the outboards?

Thanks much for that! Good to know. I did fashion some out of copper.. using lock nuts so it doesn't have to be tightened down too much...

This is effectively what I was describing in option 3 of my post. This joint is oversized and accepts stepped stand-off sleeves that...

A couple of thoughts;a part of the problem is the height of the central track,could it be lowered to reduce the angle at the rod...

I missed that Tropostudio had offered links above to the reducers. For some reason the links do not open in my McMaster App, they just...