Fitting a spinnaker or a gennaker to a rotating 360 degree cantilevered wingmast bumps up the engineering a bit also.
You need to be careful in messing around with such craft. The good parts can get under your skin and lead you down a long path of searching for...
Short answer no. In more detail: no. there are no plans to release plans; my obsession/affliction with proas is a personal thing. As a hobby style...
Let us agree to disagree ;-) From a strictly theoretical structural standpoint one flange of an I beam is in compression, the other in tension....
Plywood is a poor choice for the flanges of an I beam, only half the grain is resisting bending forces. Stuff cut from an LVL beam is far better....
QB also fills the bill for trailerable comfortable small camp/cruiser. Proa File | QB and the Texas 200...
Weight +/- ?
Typically the way to reinforce foam core construction is to rout out an annulus in the foam using a bent nail or something similar. I've gone to...
You've already got more experience than me in this venue; I'd suggest that the best answers regarding type of foam for CNC milling will be from...
That assumes you have a perfect female mold which would be harder to create than a male plug. It's just my personal opinion based of decades of...
I'd trust a tied dyneema knot far far less than a soft shackle. An eye splice each end of a line large enough to go through the thimble on one end...
Having spent most of my life around shoal waters, foils are also problematic for me ;-) My only comment about free surface daggerboards is I know...
I stand corrected; Noah's list 1/4" Okume at $159.26 a sheet. It's obvious I haven't built a quality plywood boat in a while ;-)
$450 in savings sounds pretty stout. Does that include not using f/g epoxy covering on the aquaply?
As has already been said the nylon rode does the job as far as shock loading is concerned. I've not come to trust soft shackles yet. A nice long...
