Cool design :) Possible to steer with the keel?
Not worth? Unless I’m missing something, pull up the canard, move the weight back, and things change. Get on plane and wetted surface increases,...
CapnD- maybe something like this? I suppose they could be deployable, leaving a vertical step when out, and a lower prismatic stern when in....
Can anyone explain the article? The diagrams seem to indicate crew moving one way, whilst the description say crew are moving the other. (There...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Most designers and sailmakers like a bit of fore sail overlap, given their druthers- Irens and North Sails came up with...
The Class 40 site might help? Seems like overhangs are also begging a question here ? (For example, is the 30 square meter bow (stern) a type of...
I sailed an E Class scow a fair bit, and when the going went strange, it was nearly always sailing upwind in > 1 metre chop- a puff at the same...
VGYD has a great aesthetic. :) At hull speed, drags at ~ 18-25/lbs? The Torqeedo Travel max thrust in pounds is ~ 68 lbs, so with those kind of...
2 Torqeedo 48-5000’s with 2 Cruise 10 outboards? Or three of the same for that matter. Multiple outboards are fashionable anyway…. That, and...
The wings are called batwings- take a look Phantom Race Windsurf Board...
The hook was fashionable on Div 1 boards for awhile, but on racing longboards the go to lately has been concave / flat / vee or IIRR, vee / flat /...
I actually did a sailing canoe close to the profile red lines above, double ended in planform and square in body view. It was spooky- it turned...
that depends on the battery and whether you build a watertight box around it- for example, our Torqeedo 48-5000 batteries are in a waterproof box...
