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Of course symmetric or asymmetric boards don’t have anything to do with stability, but a lot with the pain to lift one when tacking, if ballasted (no problem to lower the other one, just let it...

I wonder if extra long foils are so useful on a slow boat.
(and Skrowl is supposed to be a slow boat... My project Skrome will - should ? - be muuuuch faster!!)
John Welsford prefers short and fat...

No Brian, no junk sail at all, no control lines from the leach: I just saw this sail, thought it looked really good, and proposed it to Yann (among ~200 other propositions, I think!!).
Yann’s sail...

Speed may be a very relative notion : TriloBoat Talk: The PROMISE of Speed
Bob Wise (Boatbits, Volkscruiser, both .blogspot) is another fan of Yann. Very nice : every time he is quoted on a blog,...

Skrowl is certainly not designed as a fast boat, much more like Dave Zeiger’s or Yrvind’s boats, in term of speed (and this could be a major issue, where Yann lives : northern Brittany, an area with...

Yann claims the Krill as an inspiration, but there is obviously a strong influence of Matt Layden’s design: Yann’s previous boat Bigornick (construire un voilier) is nothing more than a modified and...