true about the small stripplanked boats! I built a little 1-man stripper canoe in the basement some 10 or so years ago, just to try the method...
thank you for the kind reply, Igor! One last "pearl of wisdom" that I have to get off my chest: only build yourself (instead of buying secondhand)...
personally I find "traditional" (retro) look is not worth any sacrifices in seaworthiness, speed, comfort & ease of build is only worth a...
"...3 double births..."
I fail to understand the concept of "degressive volume-increase as bow submerges"... It will reduce "tripping" over the bow, but at the price of...
A poster in "the quality daily" in this here "forest country" devulged the real truth, why the bridge came down: "...it was built with...
"20MWh hour charging stations are the world’s highest capacity chargers requiring a very good onshore power generation and grid support." would be...
For maneuvering in close quaters the prop certainly is not ideally posiitioned, but on the monohulls we had (Pouvreau 11.30 & Elan 410) I would...
some idle thoughts while I worked on my build: if time really rests so heavily on your hands that you absolutely MUST do something for the boat (a...
...if the plan-price is already an obstacle...
you apparently misunderstood me: these are the big BONUSES of the FCE, that are near-impossible to find in boats from the last 20 years:...
mainly reliability, but also because of fuel consumption, noise, comparatively low thrust. If mounted at the stern: will come out of the water in...
babystay: prevents mastpump together with the checkstays. Checkstays alone would pull mast backwards - risk of inverting. Outboard vs. diesel:...
I gather this First Class Europe | Bénéteau https://www.beneteau.com/monotypes/first-class-europe is your boat. A very fine one, in my view, even...
a yes: more headsailarea than is currently "in" is also quite handy on longer broad reaching/running passages with stronger tradewinds: Sailing...
