Your position on pretentioning fibers is comforting as I built my entire cat "Jolie Julie" as well as the mast and the canoe boom(new this season)...
Mike1 inquiry Mike1, you were inquiring about availability of plans for the rowboat that I built and some information about the carbon...
Many thanks, I will gladly report after trials of this boat. In the mean time would anyone have suggestions where I could get good plans for a...
oars and oarlock beam I just came through this great thread by accident today. I honestly know nothing about rowing except what I read during...
... and here is the undeniable proof that, when at anchor, a wing mast on a cruising cat is a negligible drag factor!
Jimbo, with my wife, I have sailed the coast of Atlantic twice with that boat and mast and we know just about every anchorage place right down to...
Jimbo says "the bigger the better", Eric says "a minimum chord is best". Hopefully you are both right, but for different reason. What I think you...
Sailor2, the size of the mast is 205/ 445mm for a thickness/chord ratio of 0.460. Does this mean that the shape could justify the core in this...
Boston. I believe that the subject that you are adressing now is called in french " effet de gauffrage" or " effet de crêpage" which I think...
sailor2, thank you for the answer, this discussion and exchange of information is definitely getting most interesting. I do understand that...
Sailor2, The actual increase of thickness in this case for my cf mast is closier to 4 times the thickness of the skins; if doubling the thickness...
Sailor2, 250lbs is the total weight of the mast with the complete structure. cross members, reinforcements, etc. The fiber/resin ratio was more...
Andrew, I honestly do not have professional qualifications nor the lab facilities to answer questions on comparison of compression, tension...
AndrewK, everything you see is my own design and decision. After looking around and concluding that there is basically no substantial solid and...
