Your work is awesome old multi and the reference index is priceless, can it be pinned to the beginning of this thread?
Foiling with a 4sqm wing in 10 -12 knots of breeze. Using quite large foils though.
Whats old is new again! These are cool and based on the same principle, I had a play with one over the weekend.
A slit in the right place of foot tape on the sail would fix that issue.
There is no need for mechanical fastenings for that application, just lash them on in the right place with dyneema/dynex. You may need to add a...
I dont know much about this other than what's written there but is definitely an historic multihull. [ATTACH]
Typically the tang you see is fabricated so the bit you see has flanges on the inside face of the mast and it is inserted from inside the mast and...
I have cassette rudders and use a thin teak wedge to hold the blades up while moored.
Thats cool. What you have actually found there is the Centre of Gravity (COG). The COE would be more accurately found using a CFD on a standard...
Anything can be saved if you have the time, skills, money and space to do it. Potentially it could be but given the amount of boat not there, and...
IMO the last option would be the best choice.
What about one of the first, the Jim Young design Fiery Cross., from the 1960's. Gary Baigent should be able to tell us more. Fiery Cross - a Jim...
What Bruce said. Why have the complications of canting keel and the draft limitations that imposes when you can have the same or better speed,...
While they may look hollow the sight lines and various curves of the hard turn in the topsides can be deceptive, I would suspect they are just...
Doug i hate to be the one pointing out the obvious here but the Fire arrow 19.5 and the Wolf don't actually exist in anything other than a test...