Cruising Sailboat Hullform

Yes, good link mgp. The HISWA collection of papers is a great resource. See paper #9 from 2002, and #3 from 96.

Brent did you see paper #10 from 2002, on sailing yacht balance?

Another good collection is at http://www.sailboat-technology.com/links/online_articles.php

 

No. I haven't seen paper 10. Where can I find it?
Brent

 

Brent,
It's available at the link mgp posted. It's close to the bottom of the page. Thanks very much to mgp and Tad for those posts!

 

Paul B,

Are you questioning whether Herreshoff designed cruisers?

Try the H28, H36 etc etc. They are good cruising boats. Sure the design are old style, but that is irrelevant, they were very good cruisers in their time.

One point about cruising boats though that i would like to make, having had some beautiful looking old fellas, and some modern yachts too, do not get a design that is too slow. The boat HAS to perform. Any boat that takes over 100 degrees (on the compass too please) between tacks is not much chop as a sailing boat. My belief is that 100 is the maximum allowable.

 

No.

I was responding to the comment, "..Herreshoff and quite a few others have specialized in cruisers.."

Neither Capt. Nat nor L. Francis "specialized" in cruisers. They were both well involved in state of the art racing boat design.

If you read The Common Sense of Yacht Design by L. Francis you will see his opinion of what makes a good boat, and it is quite the opposite of what many people (who have not read his writings) attribute to him.

 

OK, no worries, I see your point, yes, you are quite correct, they did not "specialise" in cruisers. They just happened to design quite a few.

They were really into some beautiful design though.