Hi gerd, As a matter of fact, there are about 500 wrecks along our coast, but because of previous restrictions and lack of big boats, they were never dived. I...
... all your questions? or have I missed something? Not really a lot .. but I am a happy patient newbie, busy designing the new project and waiting for Brents...
maybe make a 1/10 scale model from posterboard, matte one side so it can be glued, shiny other side so you can see after it's done if it's not bending to a...
Yes, I am preparing to make a model - spent the last couple of days scaling down my original 11.6 m plan to about 9 m and waiting now for the book to get some...
Hi all - just wondered what -if any - experience you have with yacht desing software. Have an older plan, on paper, with table of offsets, that I would like to...
that size might be tack weldable or even rivetable, seal seams with silicone ... -- http://www.skaar.101main.net http://www.PetitionOnline.com/spcdvd/ ...
Rivets? Never thought of that ... ?! but it might just work On the other hand welding 3mm is not a problem and with origami there will be a lot less welding...
-Gerd! In regards to your question on design. I gave Greg Elliot and Ron Pearson the waterlines for the Genoa 55 for them to convert to the origami method of...
Gentleman (And Ladies, where applicable) I've been reading the Origami group for a couple of years now, and am hopelessly intrigued by the concept. I'm...
Hi I also have been on the board for almost two years and have no desire to sail. I started working on a Origami design for a "troller" yacht to coin a George...
Greg, thanks for the tip - actually I have already made contact with Greg, and sent hime some preliminary scetches - but itäs good to hear from positive...
... if you bent the double thickness it might be too hard an edge, but if you use a small thin reinforcing strip it may fit well within the curve radius,...
Just a thought; I started with an inner-outer twin fore stay system and found that I was severely limited in sail area on the inner forestay and had to fly the...
Mmm, the parallel set-up seems to have a lot to recommend it. Unless a cruising chute falls into my sail locker there is unlikely to be one for some years to...
One problem I have seen with spinnakers offshore, is that as breeze dies, and the boat starts rolling, the chute can wrap itself around the headstay so tight...
Origami does not produce exact copies of traditionally built boats. However with our computer aided designs we can come close in many respects. When Origami...
Hello.. Just would like to hear of anyone's experience doing the inside window trim of BS 36. The trim typically covers two surfaces being the flat vertical...
Hi. Pretty soon I will be moving my boat from Van. Isl. to Richmond BC, for outfitting and I was wondering which moving companies have been used be fellow...
I bought a tractor-trailer rig after being crunched by haulers in the past. If you plan on moving any distance at all and say every five years it'd be well...
anyone know if we're supposed to weld up the under side of the stringers ? i figure as long as i close up the top i should be ok, but want to make sure....
... I weld the stringers on the topside with about a 21/2' tack about every 12" to 14" and underneath the same tack about every 3'. This is important to keep...
evan, thanks, i guess i'll start tacking undersides tomorrow, and thank you much for the quick reply. rich, it's a 36' swain, the stringers are the 1" angle...
While assymetrical keels may have the theoretical advantage , I've built them both ways and the difference was unoticable in the real world. Brent Swain ... ...
Drawing up every piece of the interior could easily be done by taking measurements of an existing hull , but would it be worthwhile, as every builder will have...
I used to go for the 6 inch wide one, but I couldn't fit two anchors side by side, which the 8 inch wide one will allow. Go for the 8 inch by 8 inch bottom...
Fibreglass sheet , which consists of a single layer of matt wetted out makes an excellent material for model building. You can pull the model together and...
One guy did a 31 in 1/8th inch plate(3.2mm) , but he had health problems and I'm not sure if he ever finished it. It went together well tho. My 26 footer uses...
There's no reason you couldn't build a trawler using origami techniques. You could find an existing hull you like and take patterns off it. A bit of fore and...
Hanks can get around both stays too far up to reach at sea, if the tension on one stay causes the other to go slack.You need both stays set on a single rocking...
