Tie a line to your stub mast halyard, around a mast, and back to your stub mast halyard. Attach the bitter end of your stub mast halyard near the...
If you want to use an existing rudder system, dotan.com has one model that is 845mm long from the lower edge of the rudder box to the tip of the...
Catamaran seen on a French beach drawn from memory. The inside of each hull resembled the shape of the Hobie Max, the outside was about twice as...
I suggest an empirical approach: get hold of profile drawings of boats with those features (Topcat, Dart, G-cat, several Hobie models, there was a...
I'm guessing that the capsize lever is the distance between the centroid of the superstructure and the centroid of the underwater structure.
The portage is part of the Ultimate Florida Challenge, not the Everglades Challenge: WaterTribe Events https://www.watertribe.com/Events/Default.aspx
That is the perfect location for initial contact with the beach, but that can usually be dealt with if you are willing to slow down, step into the...
Very few materials really stand up to sand. Diamond, sapphire. Even steel doesn't really stand up to sand, it just abrades slowly and what comes...
A monohull's rig often contributes half or more of the rotational inertia, which is what reduces the roll rate. For a multihull, the rig makes a...
Phil Bolger drew hulls with square cross sections, made bottom and side curvature the same, and was surprised by how well they sailed. The...
Rob Denney swears that resin infusion can be made to be quicker than a plywood build, and gives you a longer lasting hull. See Intelligent...
Thanks for the correction, and an informative post. I only know enough to be aware that aluminium needs some treatment for bonding, not enough to...
There is no magic to it. The wind speed going to zero is irrelevant because it is not the wind driving the wheels of the cart through a turbine,...
How large a proportion of the total cost goes to hull materials depends on the vessel. If you build a six hour canoe, then materials cost may...
It seems to me that is quite relevant experience. If you want something more specific to your plan, the Galeón Andalucía is available for sail...
