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I can only agree!!!

Michael!

The thrust is ...

The merit might not lie in the completion or use of the boat but more what it represents.

Similar to this is the way some will build a boat and not use it. The very access to...

I agree NIck a good point and again another nice observation.

The water does have an orbital action. But if you are surfing and waiting to catch waves and letting them pass under you (waiting for...

Yes ... Great observation Tad,

At low speeds you have waves and little hollow behind the transom. As you go faster more of the boat weight is supported by dynamic lift with a hollow appearing...

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Most was arrived at from individual thinking ... but I have seen some parts of the explanation in various places too. Bits of articles in different magazines, journals, even the web can have...

Howdy ... nice thoughtful reply.

It is really interesting how easily we slip into the mistaken language though. I almost wince every time I say a boat is "planing" or have to put quotation marks...

True .. it is not a problem when they are used as labels ... but there is a lot of commentary out there that makes them sound like "rules". Like a displacement boat can't exceed hullspeed by much no...

Howdy DavidG,

There is ... the talk is of a sailing trip at one of the traditional wooden boat festivals in Brittany next year. The chaps are trying to work out what to do with the boat after the...

The trip came off last year.

You can see here.
fast-building-two-plywood-quick-canoes-in-one-week-to-paddle-down-the-loire-in-france/ Storerboatplans

Better still, make a stitched bag and an unstitched bag and see how they hold up.

The beginning information for this was on my forum where one of the members found that they glue the side curtains...

It was a really nice show.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5093/5484202668_7b163f34d6_z.jpg

I think the free admission fee meant lots of fresh and interested people came in and it made it an...

Howdy, It is a free festival with free entry. I head that they had cut off the boats for display at 250!!

It is going to be huge.

South Australian Wooden Boat Festival
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Howdy David,

It would be possible to fit foils to a PDR and might even be possible to get it foiling - the speeds to get some of the human powered hydrofoils going are relatively slow.

However,...

Hi Jim,

Most of the Moths have sailboard type rigs with camber inducers and a small sock over the mast. Sails are cut quite like a sailboard sail with large luff round that bends the mast through...

Howdy,

I was invited to watch the Moth World Titles at Lake Macquarie from a Goat Island Skiff - had my non waterproof camera handy and a few snap lock plastic bags (really just for spray put a...

I know you like the performance edge too James! (I keep an eye on you as well)

MIK

Howdy,

Be a little bit careful of thinking in a sloop way with a rig that may be a cat rig.

The front sail in any rig should be sheeted out at about 10 degrees from the centreline. Something...

Howdy,

It is much more important to get all the details of a particular rig right than it is to get the "best" rig.

With every sailing comparison I've seen there has been some major flaw with...

Ha - I've gone faster than that in a Puddleduck (I hold the peak speed record in the class 9.2mph or was it 9.1?). So I think you have gone much faster than 8 in a Goat!

In the video I would...

The traditional junk rig - one with sheetlets is worse (edit- for high speed sailing) than a plain lug rig with a boom and proper downhaul tension.

Nobody get me wrong here - the junk is brilliant...

I think Herreshoff (LF) claimed that sailing canoes were the fastest human made device until getting up towards 1900.

MIK

Howdy,

For sailing fast the priorities are the same with every rig - controlling twist and draft. It is not just a rig question.

If you sail a bermudan rig with a slack vang it can be...

Howdy Keyhavenpotterer junior - we haven't met and I can't remember your name from talking to KHPsenior - Chris?

I suspect the tripping, slipping sideways problem was, I think because...

General Texas 200 comments

The comment that you have to be ready for all types of winds from all angles is right on the button.

If your boat can't go well to windward it might not matter in a...

Great thing to do Margo

(thanks Scot for telling me about it)

MIK

David and MAM

Thanks for defending me.

Discussing my original thinking about the Quick Canoe. I don't say I am right ... but I have studied and experienced and drawn some conclusions. So have...

Thanks for putting the link to the Eureka Canoe up Stefan.

Nice that it preserves the original good looks of the 15.5ft Eureka. I worked really hard at that aspect. Also to get the fine-ness in...

Lasers are certainly the cheapest of the bunch ... but even the AU$10,000 or whatever they are now can exclude so many people and so many nations.

It is possible to put something together for a...

looking good MAM!

Best wishes
Michael Storer

Not necessarily such a clear delineation. In Australia Lock Crowther and his son Brett had considerably larger volume hulls particularly in the bows and found that the damping of pitching had...

There are options with some variation that are satisfactory to most people in the same position as the original post.

The practicality is that the outboard hulls are more likely to be slender than...

Howdy,

There are some downsides to be aware of too.

The main one is that outriggers give a huge amount of extra stability and that can result in damaging a mast or other rigging that is not...

There is a nice slideshow of another GIS in Essex UK here - it gives a compressed view of the building. Took about the same time as MAM overall.
...

Yes .. looks cool!

But I guess it begs the question ... Warp oriented sails are used on boats with high rigging tensions and adjustment tensions.

In the good old days we used 2:1 cunninghams to...

Remember that if doing a sleeve over the spar the spar taper will reduce the effective round with the result the sail is flatter than expected.

So for sleeves on a yard or a gaff the taper...

Howdy,

There was a review of Flashboat in Woodenboat a long time ago. Cornish Gigs may be the inspiration, but when shortened an lightened so much they are a very different boat. It is a very,...

My Rowboat has sgnificant weaknesses for the type of use you are looking at too and has increased stability with some reduction in performance over a really good Dory.

But I think my analysis of...

Good stuff Todd!

Brian .. if you can establish a shape with the software I can eventually do drawings that move the cloth into economic position and also clarify the cartesian co-ordinates the...

Agree completely with this MAM!

But the original request was for a boat that was



The boy's own boat.

I don't think a lot of performance (which the Jet has in buckets) is necessary as an...

The brief is for a boat that will be a good learning boat for a child but be sailable by an adult.

See Chuck is at his anti PDR thing again ... oh well ... he can't let it slide once. Try a PDR...

Tom,

If I get your point properly ... you are almost saying that a "thought experiment" such as the one in this thread can be argued in both directions so it is bound to be hardly conclusive.
...

Hey Norm ...

Before telescopes confirmed Black Holes ... human beings had Storage Units.

I'll see what I can do.

Michael

Great discussion!!!

I think this is the exact point. That the natural variation in two pieces of timber are going to be greater than any observable effect.

For example ... steaming a whole...

Yes. The bowline works with a horizontal hole too.

Actually I have always just done it that way without considering the alternatives and it has worked fine.

Generally I thread it through the...

Did some detective work and found it was built by David Goetz - in California I think.

Found him on facebook and he sent me some more pics.

OK ... Some more pics from David Goetz.

I love,...

Howdy Archie,

Stopper knots are weak and also hard to untie. Did you see the rigging guide on my website?

http://www.storerboatplans.com/Faq/tradrigperformance.html

There is a link to a...

A friend found a video of another BETH on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VYu1yomnhA

Best wishes
Michael Storer

Drill the holes from the underside and don't let the nails extend out very far. This will mean they don't stray much away from the optimum distances.

It ain't rocket science ... an error of a...

Because the spars are round it makes it easier.

MIK

Howdy A.

First of all, It is not super duper critical .. if there is a quarter inch of permanent bend in it then it is not a big deal. The remark in the plan is just to get people to find the...