... Hey Doug. Of course, sometimes it leads a person on to doing really dumb stuff, too, but I guess that's the price you pay for trying new things. A person...
... There's a difference between the above three paragraphs: the first deals with an idea that has now been out decades, and I have yet to see one in the flesh...
... Peter: Just think of an airplane: the elevator at the tail pushes the tail down to make the airplane go up. This just does the same thing except with a...
... performance than this one gives. Which is why few people went this direction. ... This one gives modest performance not because of any design flaw, but ...
... Offended for expressing doubts? No. Offended when others insinuate, if not actually call me to be a liar? Who wouldn't? The plans for this original boat...
... file with drawings and cutting guides. If you don't believe me, make one yourself. ... Yes, and if you don't believe me that Mars is full of four-armed...
I hope that I will able to keep out of the fight. If anybody catches me responding or participating in it, please call me on it, preferably on-list but...
I hope that I will able to keep out of the fight. If anybody catches me responding or participating in it, please call me on it, preferably on-list but...
... "afterboard" needs to offset boat CLR. Keeping to board length of say 1/10 boatlength, calls for a fin area around 10x boat LR, and unless I miss my math...
Do we indeed know that a strong weather helm is not, in fact, introduced? The game may lie in "how strong." "How strong" is a matter of scale also -...
... Please don't insult this group with your condescension. ... Do you know how old this idea is? I was introduced to it when I was a kid, many years ago, when...
Further to previous... I wonder if an outboard rig with leeboard might be more effective on the point of max beam. By convention, I think it should mount to...
... I wasn't insulting the group, T. I was ridiculing you, for your incredible presumption that I should build a boat in order to prove _your_ claims. Can...
... introduced? The game may lie in "how strong." ... on a small boat might scale up to impossibly powerful on a larger one. This might be a thing that is...
Here is another file with the outboard sail: Outboard Sail-1.jpg I was hoping that someone who was used to sailing with a mizzen could comment since that seems...
I am just catching up on the sail on the transom rig discussion and it got me thinking about asking for opinions on a subject. My mission was to moor the 22...
With just the mizzen on my old gaff rigged yawl , the boat wanted to point straight into the wind and sail backwards . Ease the sheet and she would turn and go...
... I was told that a 300 pound ... This definitely true. The weight of a block of concrete is so much less in water that it makes a significant difference. ...
I have not tried one of these transom mounted rigs. I think they are an idea that should work. The rudder becomes the centre of lateral resistance much like a...
I'm strongly convinced that in small scales, all sorts of weird things are workable that are not possible in larger scales. At dinghy scales, racers do roll...
... things are workable that are not possible in larger scales. At dinghy scales, racers do roll tacks... try that on a 40 footer! (I suppose with enough...
are we still talking about no bow waves? this topic started way before i joined. ... From: rhaldridge <knobmaker@...> To: boatdesign@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Ray: Sorry for the typo on your name last time. ... When you ridicule one member of a group, you give the whole group what the local hippies call "bad vibes"...
Me thinks, that the discussion of the bow wave will be with us forever as will, the bow wave. Whatever one says said about it..will not make it go away. ... ...
John and all, I think that if the rudder/sail device were moved to the bow, It would work much better. A sailor would go mad trying to adjust the sail at the...
Yes, I actually agreed a bit with this logic, and an engine block was initially considered. The concrete was used for ease of handling. I thought I would have...
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