sailboat bows

Show me a recent sexy 14 Metre alu cruiser.!

 

Think of the Morning Cloud. Hateka

 

Aitchem
I agree wholeheartedly. Besides the js and fifes, all the traditional sail craft, friendship sloops, french fishing luggers, etc.
I see the modern cad renditions on this site and wonder?
Aesthetically, nobody's done anything in the last 40 years.
When I was a kid there was a TV series called the 21st century. It gave us a glance as to what the future would hold. We're probably 10 years behind,however the designs are similar to the cars we drive today, I don't think it works for the yachts of today. Just imagine why anyone would consider a supersonic boat, a popular thread in this forum.

 

If you had a supersonic boat you could put Mighetto in a dingy 100' behind it during the cruising party.

 

HM, you show me an aluminium J or an aluminium Fife, and I'll think about finding a sexy alu 14m cruiser for you.

 

hereyago
http://www.sy-ranger.com/

 

No fair - I said Aluminium....
Ranger was steel.

 

splitting hairs.?

 

sexy, want this, alu, for 2 +occasional2 cruising, round the globe

 

Heh heh! Probably...
I still think you are dissing all designers since the 30's. Speaking as one of those designers, I might occasionally take umbrage.
Steve

 

No offence intended, just get your pencils out

 

SailDesign
You were designing boats in the 30's? Unless you started when you were 10 you must be 100.
So a question I can't seem to get a response to. What do you think of 5' of freeboard at the bow of a 33' french fishing lugger type cruiser? Is it way too much? I'd really appreciate any comment as I'm in the lofting process and running out of white paint and erasers!

 

Chandler,
If I had said "dissing all designers since the Ark", I would still be OK, since my designing days have been "SINCE" the Ark.....
Steve (only about 50)

 

I think fashion comes into it a lot, historically anyway, as the person who mentioned the Titanic suggested.
I think another factor affecting seaworthiness is the horizontal sheer and the fore-aft angle of the keel. Traditional working craft, fishing smacks, Victorian cruising yachts based on those styles, had long straight keels with maximum draught at the stern, and a pronounced slope of the deck from front to back. This would surely offset any "plunging" tendency from the sharp plumb stem.

 

Ok, so anyone have any comment on 5' of freeboard at the bow of a 33' sailboat. The rig would be lug yawl with the main stepped similarly to a cat boat in the fore and aft position..

No problem , will make a drier boat , better offshore.

FAST FRED