used optimist rig would be a perfect choice for a first try: cheap, effective, readily available, perfectly sized for your boat. Most probably,...
Thanks for the link !
This is impossible or next to impossible, if same interior room is required, while maintaning the same overall beam when on trailer: macGregor is...
First of all, this configuration of panel is to be avoided. You will get stress concentrations at inside corner = formulas, derived far...
The stretch is not that big in absolute terms. So the error of some ~10% in measuring the stretch alone would not surprise me. (the stretch...
The accurate way is to borrow a large dynamometer and install it between cascade and backstay proper. All the sophisticated calculations are...
Thank you for info! The help is much appreciated.
take an IOR style design with 20degrees WL entry angle, 45 degree stem, flared bow and modern one with ~16 degree WL entry, vertical stem and...
:D I do not think it is a good choice (or bad choice, for that matter). I look after real world info.
I am specific. I design boats myself. The topic is existing mini650 in coastal areas of sea and large inland lakes and lagoons. Not "something...
What older designs do you mean in particular?
Dear Sirs ;D The intended topic is about "how the mini 650 behave in coastal areas with short steep seas", not "what boat to chose for coastal...
Than Ok, but we do go a bit off-topic here. The point of interest is still mini 6.5 in short steep sea characteristic for (shallow) coastal and...
I am curious about mini 6.5 now. I know pretty well it is not optimal for coastal sailing.
In Baltic offshore, we have ~2m deep thermal layer in summer, acting like "bottom" for waves; the result is wave height is rarely much higher as...
