Okay, I am sorry if I sounded if I was talking down to anyone. I don't know how experienced anyone reading my posts is so I tend to try to break things down...
In Lester Gilberts IOM site, he has a section on 'winged rudders'. These were developed to reduce the nose diving that some IOM suffer from....sounds familiar....
IMO will add wetted surface. If its a windy day you add the winged rudder, on a calm day use a non wing rudder... lester says basically it allows you...
Winglets are common on airplane wing tips and help reduce tip vortex when a wing is under heavy load. Sail craft work under much lighter loads and tip vortices...
Been there, done that. The winged rudder does not work on Footies. The nose still goes down and the drag goes way up along with a massive stern wave as visual...
I recently acquired an old Southern Cross 4 IOM and she goes like smoke and oakum till nose digs in. She sails so well otherwise I hate to start messing with...
My Dad got me into vane sailing in the sixties on Speckles Lake in San Francisco. After college and 10 years in the military I rejoined the hobby in the late...
Mark, Actually this is not the forum to bring up the IOMs, but I’ll take a short moment because I am afraid you are about to ruin a nice boat. I have sailed...
Randy, I believe that the '80's Marblehead you described was called, "Yankee". I raced against one up in Framingham, MA several times back then named,...
Niel, The apparent dominance of Roger's insect derivatives here in the U.K. can be a bit misleading. The active Footy racing community over here is quite small...
Hi Trevor, Thanks so much for your first hand impressions of Footy racing in the UK and the comparison of the different designs. Some of my designs feature a...
Skippers: Way back in January when I first started getting this year's Minuteman MYC regatta schedule together a Footy regatta was scheduled for April 14....
Hi Neil, I believe i am the 'best of the rest' Trevor refers to, as i am fielding a depron Ranger this year. I have been having reasonable sucess, despite a...
Hey Scott, The peaked deck doesn't hurt the boat when it is not needed but might help to save her when others around her bury their bows and lose control. It...
You are making several good point Neil and well stated also. About sail area it is better to be efficient than large I agree but still "rig big and sail ugly"...
Thanks to Hank, Walt and all the Orangeburg gang for hosting the R2 Championship. What had been forecast to be a rainy day turned out to be beautiful. We had...
We have far too few Footy events in Regions 1 and 2. The Orangeburg club's site straddles both and is a beautiful pond in a very nice setting. The guys and...
I can understand all that Neil. There are few mistakes I have not already made but I do continue to make the same mistakes over and over. There is no...
Cute but useless. Oil spills are huge and anything in the water gets trashed. I have cleaned up oil spills and that thing will not collect enough to make it...
Walt sent me this report: Footy Region 2 Championship Regatta - April 21, 2012 The North East Model Sailers had their first major regatta, which was also the...
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Chris made 200 kits, all of which have been sold. If someone would like to continue production, he told me the mold, etc is available. Contact Chris if you...
The Region 1 Footy Championship will be held on Saturday 6/16 on Lily Pond in Gilford, NH. Skippers meeting will be at 10:00. Unfortunately, Suzanne has a...
Bill, the CD with instructions to mounting the boat is very important for who wants build a footy or other boat and I am interested in ask him if it is...
