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Hi Jonathan,

Traditionally planked hulls can be trailer sailed if the wood is well sealed, immersion periods are kept brief, and some seeping at the plank seams is acceptable. If that does not fit...

Sorry to steer this further off topic, but I can't help wondering: Was the Radial rig as fast to windward as the Full rig in the breeze? -- Grant

Very clever, Tom. I like that!

Grant

Or a waterproof fabric cover, with hoops? Roll up and stow when not wanted.

Grant

Perttu, I can see you're having fun! To keep things very simple, do you see any difficulty with replacing OozeGooze's cat yawl sail plan with a single masted rig like Ocean Explorer's?

Grant

Not sure if non-class-legal hulls can still be officially registered. From pdracer.com:

How To Request A Hull Number
When your class legal hull goes 3D (meaning that the bottom is attached to the...

Slight case of gas?

While sailing with my Dad as a kid, when the centerboard would start to hum he used to say it meant we had everything working exactly right. An entirely self taught sailor, he might have actually...

Hi woodeneye. Your reply suggests that maybe you misunderstook MIK. I think he was suggesting physically altering the trailing edges of your foils, rather than changing the orientation of your foils...

No, a hole wouldn't be good there. I would just apply a good lashing all the way around the yard. The SCAMP does seem to be sailing along fine in the photo. But how will the rig react when he bears...

On the other hand, why fasten the end of the halyard all the way forward on the end of the yard? Why not just have the span of the halyard that holds the yard against the mast about a foot or two...

Well that sounds simple enough! Which attachment point on the yard do you shift? At the fore end, or near the middle of the yard?

Grant

http://smallcraftadvisor.com/images/scampWebpage_08.jpg

This is a photo of the new Welsford S.C.A.M.P. Rigging the halyard like this is said to control the yard nicely during hoisting and...

My vehicle doesn't have handy attachment points under the bumpers, so a friend showed me how to attach a pair of webbing loops that come up through the slots on each side of the front hood. They work...

Thank you Mik and Robhosailer,

All very good comments. I suppose a more peaked-up sail geometry is also less susceptible to twist.

Best,
Grant

Different topic. Had a thought about adding a counterweight to the fore end of the yard to "balance" the rig in a different sense. The idea would be to eliminate the twist induced by gravity acting...

How about stepping the mast a bit off-center so the boom is on-center? Bad idea? -- Grant

MIK, how about anchoring the downhaul low on the mast itself (or to the mast step) when practical, rather than to the deck or a thwart? Seems to me that would eliminate the forces that push the mast...

Hello Sam.

When sailing with your son, how about just tying in a reef and then raising the sail high enough with the halyard to maintain generous boom-to-skull clearance?

Grant

Hi again Sailandoar. You just purchased this boat, correct? You have little to no experience sailing it? Wouldn't it make more sense to first see how well you can make it perform with its current...

The mast might be a wee bit easier to step, but a sliding gunter rig would otherwise be more complicated to rig and unrig than the conventional sail plan, would it not?

But being drawn to some...

Hi Sailandoar,

One of our boats is a Siren 17 sloop that is kept on a trailer. It is enough of a time consuming struggle to step the mast and attach all the rigging that it seldom gets used for...

Paul, synthetic yarns will dry faster, which is a good thing. Any yarn can temporarily get snagged on nearby stitching, so it's wise to keep them away from seams as much as possible.

Some people...

I'd be interested in seeing a table of offsets ...

Hi MIK. This is off topic here (no it's not ... I just moved it - MIK), but because you just mentioned it ... (you might want to move this to the Loire River thread)

How have plans been...

Excuse me Callsign - I hesitate to out you - but when you take a lovely mannequin sailing, occasionally change her position. Haha!

Grant

Looks like there's a significant hard spot near the leach showing in your last photo, also. I would agree with the other gentleman that the cut and seam construction in this sail were not quite...

MIK it's good to have you verify the mysterious disappearances. Was beginning to wonder if I'm having little strokes! :-)

Grant

Actually, that doesn't look too bad. You're always going to have some wrinkles near where the mast intersects the spars on that tack because the sail is laying against the mast rather than assuming...

Maybe someone more qualified will chime in, but here are a couple comments:

Regarding #1: I think no harm will come from omitting the lacing tie from the occasional grommet to prevent conflicts...

Brian, you don't find that the mast disturbs the behavior of your lower two forward telltales?

Grant

Thank you for the thoughtful reply MIK. Can't wait to see your ideas for Son of Goat!

Grant

Piccup Squared is a dead simple 11' square bowed flattie for sheltered waters from Jim Michalak that has a 6.5' x 3.0' unobstructed sleep spot between the watertight bow and stern storage chambers. ...

MIK, now that you've had extensive experience with the PDRacer format, what would you draw if you could start with a blank sheet of paper and had no external rules to conform to? So far I have only...