The most recent plans should meet the class rules. The Mirror 16 class isn't active. You could check with the Mirror Association and see what they...
Hi Bert, I haven't started building the Mirror 16. I would like to but at this point it is unlikely that I will get around to it. I have two other...
I was planning on glassing the inside of the centerboard trunk. I wonder if making the centerboard grooves out of thickened epoxy would make them...
Hi Dan, That's an excellent list of suggestions and information. I have been working on a set of plans that stays as close to the original as...
I've decided to work on set of Original drawings for the M16. My first draft was posted on a different thread. This draft is more complete, though...
Attached is the first draft of the original plans. I still have around 5hrs of stuff to finish drawing and adjusting. (Things like boat...
Hi Peter. That sounds like a blast. I was hoping to start building it this month but it got too cold in the garage to refinish my other boat. So...
The published values I've seen suggest that too. However, from some more extensive estimates and weights listed in the packing lists for the...
I do know all of that. It's still good practice to do some testing when things are less familiar or when information (in the case of the OP's...
I have a similar scenario. I have a panel on a boat I'm hoping to build that is mainly cylindrical but will have a little bit of double curvature....
Hi Hume. The plans are posted to be used. My hope is that anyone who tries building a Mirror 16 finds the plans helpful. I have adjusted them a...
Thanks for the run down on righting one of these. I've contemplated having a rope ladder stored somewhere in the boat that can be tied to the...
I ended up finding the 1000lb capacity in this archived article about the boat. I get about 24cf of volume in the floor tanks which would amount...
Yeah, I wish more of his plans had been preserved, too. It would have made this process a lot easier. I missed that the outsides weren't glassed...
From what I've been able to gather, the mirror 16 is fully fiber glassed on the outside and most of the joints inside are taped. Glassing the...