As you say detension the shrouds and do one part at once, that is if the mast is keel stepped. You can add some additional "shrouds" to concrete...
Can allways build a crows nest up to make it equal..
You are right, there are exceptions but generally speaking it's true.
Which means flatter hull and less displacemet. For the same length it's about half the displacement but maybe 15% less wetted area. Thus the Aw/D...
First, IMHO, there's no such thing as "slot effect" with soft sails. Second: More sails have higher lift coeffience with the cost of added drag....
Better both. Most of the forces are parallel to the arch surfaces thus unidirectional and biax for torsional and hold the structure together.
Don't use solid wood but strips, and defineatly laminate it fast on the boat. Use also unidirectional glass.
What I do say is modern boat becoming slower when you reef and waves turn steeper and higher while the longkeeler is just becoming happy and...
Excluding all the lightest wedges the speed is merely about the wind conditions. Light winds modern wins by SA/D ratio, upwind the same with...
In other words, just take the airspeed (of an aeroplane or apparent wind speed on a sailboat) of and what's left is the circulation.. IMO the easy...
Remember thou, considering the surface roughness and the separation as the end result it's most obvious reduction in induced drag, the outcome...
Concur!
For me it looks mostly vorticities of foot and tops of both sails. No "leech effect" but the separated boundary layer on the sails..
Steve Killing wrote samekind of nonsense in his book..
Not, planets magnetic field, the amount of solar wind, the age of the planet, planet density and most of all what's the original composition and...
