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that is beautiful!!!

uh, a 27' sharpie has a beam of what, 8'?

A 27' catamaran has a beam of maybe 18'?

Broaches and knockdowns are VERY common on monohulls, and not just racers. Not getting water into an open...

I stretched apple pie to make the side panels 8' long. Had to make the bow transom much narrower to fit on the foredeck of my 25 footer, it's now 2' at its widest. The widest beam and deepest rocker...

moondust :-)

I wonder if it's less work to cut up glass into little pieces and mix it into the epoxy or just save my scissors and tape the darned thing...

I have a question regarding design...

Ok... How about west 406, colloidal silica? It gets 4 stars on the can for "fillets", more than any other west filler, and is a "adhesive" type filler unlike micro balloons... Also very light... And...

I'm sure he is not biased?

Do u have a link to the article?

Yup. I think most keelboats have an AVS of around 120, from catalinas to mini-650's, and that is generally accepted as the minimum. Of course even some boats with this AVS might have downflooding...

I have Reuel Parker's book on Sharpies, which is an excellent read.

From his book and from what I have read and learned over the past few years, yes they can be relatively fast off the wind for...

Ok looks like micro balloons are out...

I do have access to titanium dioxide, and talc, though the cotton filler sounds promising...

I DON'T WANT TO TAPE THE JOINTS. I don't want to sand them. Wizbang makes his joints thicker on his dinghies so as not to need tape, but he uses some heavy duty filler. If I make the joints pretty...

Nice build!!!

If I could only find some cheap galvanized ring nails around here...

Antifreeze? Really?

Im about to build a small dinghy for my keelboat. Low low budget, acx ply flat bottom timber chine. I want to spend as little as possible on it, I will build a nice one some day but for now I wanna...

Bump.

heres an older pic of my boat Dave. It's a basic masthead sloop, with double lowers and a single spreader. I got rid of the fuller and do hank on now.

Thanks Dave, I posted a thread a few months ago asking if anyone else had put a squaresail on their sloop rigged boats and although plenty of people chimed in, you are the only one so far who has...

Thanks for the info dave! Can the lines to the yards come up directly from a block on the rail, is there some reason you ran them back to the top of the mizzen mast first?

+1 on the polytarp, I...

lol there are kayaks with foils that can hydroplane under paddle power, so I'm sure it can be done, but my question goes more towards planing, more conventional boats. The cost of the foils on a...

That said, multihulls are a blast and I am not at all against them. But if you push a fast multi to the edge, you will eventually capsize it. I'm not talking about gemini's here, but rather...

Ehhh sorry but a c&c 30 is a very safe boat. In fact one just crossed the atlantic a couple years ago. I have some experiences in c&c's generally, and they are very well built. In fact, almost all...

Well this is related to the low horsepower planing boats thread, except it is really pushing the envelope now. I believe that Yamaha won the most miles per gallon with an outboard contest using its...

Dave,

could you explain the setup of that square sail? I often wonder about putting one on my own marconi sloop rigged keelboat, but I'm not too sure how to make it work. If the yard is attached...

I really wish you could find plans for something like this boat, it looks fast to sail and fast to build too...

Sorry here's the link: http://www.sailboatlistings.com/

Just do a search. Yacht world, sailing Texas and Craigslist are also good

You haven't mentioned the type of sailing. Day sailing? Cruising with the wife, or family? Rivers, lakes, bays or ocean? Is performance important to you? How much sailing experience do u have?...

I'm sure others have done this, but I remember I had a bolger cartopper (12') which was very tender, at least initially. Whoever was in it had to sit basically on the floor when sailing, and very low...

Dave, will you be sailing on the Hudson river, or coastally?

I feel like there are so many better options than building a sharpie cabin-cruiser wannabe...

So am I the only one who has thought about how cool it would be to have a square sail on their plastic keelboat for the occasional downwind run? I figure the spin halyard, or even the topping lift,...

That is a beautiful boat. I wonder if there are any similar pram type dinghies in that size range designed for glued lap (ie more than two Chines)

Haha I'm not moving out of the area I'm simply moving to a place where storage will be an issue.

I have kept it stored in my girlfriend's father's backyard since last season. I thought my next...

Havent posted here in a while! Well I've been super busy with my plastic keelboat and haven't had time to use my outrigger even once this season. It's taking up space and I'm moving so it has to go,...

Hard to believe that came in at just 800#, with the central cabin and all...

If ur cheap like me :d

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae96/peterchech/082111085343.jpg

Get the white cheap open cell insulating foam sheets from home depot. Stack it, cut to fit, wrap in...

Do you have a link for that tubing? For aluminum too?

I need a tender that can fit on my boat, was also thinking about an sof folding tender. Im sure it's been done before (everything has) but...

Wow that's a cool video. Looks like someone in new guinea got plans for a Bolger light dory and added an ama right? I wonder if such boats can exceed hull speed...

I like the concept. Why no transom though?

And do u have a source for those glass rods?

I am thinking something like that, but maybe flat bottomed to get the max displacement for its size, and with a transom for the same reason (though that may get ugly)... Then again, a round bilges...

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae96/peterchech/a46964cd.jpg

I have a design challenge for u guys. I need a tender for my 25' keelboat. As I can see it I only have about 8' between the forestay and the mast on which to store the tender, turned upside down and...

I think plank style foils work on boats at slow speeds but as u speed up they become less practical. I used that router method to make a naca daggerboard and it seemed to make a huge difference over...

Hi bob, good to see u on this forum!

Carbon would only save a few pounds on such a small build, and would be far more beneficial in the mast than in akas IMHO.

Wade: I did not realize ur 53...

Dave- post some pics, or even better, some video please!

Petecress- the hollow amas are actually easier to build than the solid ones, and are very light and strong.

Hi Chris! Glad to see you're back. Great pics and accounts of your experiences. Your advice was one of the main reasons I actually went out and built my wa'apa last year.

Frank, I love your...

I love these shallow draft designs, and am impressed by the claimed stability up to 145 degrees. I'm just not sure how you get into the cabin with the aft spar placed directly in the companionway......

Buccaneer 24

Scarab has some more modern designs in that range, for plywood

Wade maybe you could help here. Ill be in Hawaii in one month so I've been boning up on Polynesian boating topics. Most Polynesian voyaging was probably done on catamarans. Their outrigger canoes...

But paddling is so boring! Do any of you guys actually do that?

;)

Although I haven't configured my boat as a tri yet, if not for the beam limitation at my beach cat club I would have. It's kind of like the difference between a steering oar and a rudder. The...

Well I'm gonna say it...

Yes, this boat is about as seaworthy as you can make a 12' boat.

But... why? Nothing really adds to seaworthiness as much as waterline length, all things being the...

That bateau is pretty cool, but im not too sure anyone has built one yet. Inking the i550, of which at least 40 have been built.