Typically the tang you see is fabricated so the bit you see has flanges on the inside face of the mast and it is inserted from inside the mast and...
I have cassette rudders and use a thin teak wedge to hold the blades up while moored.
Thats cool. What you have actually found there is the Centre of Gravity (COG). The COE would be more accurately found using a CFD on a standard...
Anything can be saved if you have the time, skills, money and space to do it. Potentially it could be but given the amount of boat not there, and...
IMO the last option would be the best choice.
What about one of the first, the Jim Young design Fiery Cross., from the 1960's. Gary Baigent should be able to tell us more. Fiery Cross - a Jim...
What Bruce said. Why have the complications of canting keel and the draft limitations that imposes when you can have the same or better speed,...
While they may look hollow the sight lines and various curves of the hard turn in the topsides can be deceptive, I would suspect they are just...
Doug i hate to be the one pointing out the obvious here but the Fire arrow 19.5 and the Wolf don't actually exist in anything other than a test...
Here in NZ there is little attention paid to any kind of measurement rules and its a case of make it as fast as you can with no penalty. I see the...
short answer - No probably not. The cheap part is the hull and decks. If you have an existing boat, the rig/deck hardware could be recycled onto...
Why not just do a wire support edge on it like the front tramps
IMO, the consideration if you are not seriously into racing is the ongoing maintenance costs while using the boat for cruising and social racing...
I made a similar deck panel 3.6m wide x 2.4m long as it was limited by the size of the sheets of material I used. This has a H80 25mm core with...
Im doing a similar exersize right now and can't find a lot of info. All I've found so far is a couple of pictures to work everything out from....
