Excellent advice above, PAR and Richard at least are experienced offshore sailors. Mini Transats ‘RACE’ across the Atlantic, and I for one...
Congratulations on a fine, almost piano like finish. Has anyone commented as they should on this magnificent job.
Beam was discussed at length early on. One reason for restricted beam, discussed earlier, or simply discovered resently, is righting moment....
On the contrary. Leave the engine where it should be for CG reasons. A proper car or truck drive shaft HAS a spline at one end and this is ideal...
Congratulations on flipping your hull, a major milestone. You are going to have to supply a side view of your engine instillation and propeller...
The theory was that speed would ram enough air under the boat, and be trapped, for dynamic lift to decrease drag, and allow higher speeds in...
From personal experience, extremely stable, but it must be fairly flat mud, sand, or shingle. Left in the water, crustations can grow in the CB...
I have some experience with tandem 'Dagger Boards' and Thor Hyerdal also used them successfully on the balsa raft to control direction in the...
How about crossed adze and calking mallet, at least unique.
Someone in our group commented that the pearl in there was more valuable than the boat, so they took the pearl and abandoned the boat in the yard.
Good observations. Though not 'stepped' in the classic sense, it has similar characteristics. It might have limited speed range, certainly at the...
And at completely the other end of the scale, photographed in a yacht yard in Rockport TX, yesterday. Just a random boat on the hard. I think...
Just for fun, here are a couple of simple plywood OB powered launches. The 'flat' bottom is so shaped as to be a 'wave rider' sliding, or surfing...
Reasonable suggestion, but we discussed this to tatters earlier in this thread. The original, and still current, assumption is that these...
