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| Originally Posted by cranky I have been reading through your stuff. Interesting, nearly put me to sleep with all those words but the ideas were there.  |
Sorry about that, I'm not a particularly good writer, I realize that
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| Originally Posted by cranky Fishing under sail nothing new about that people have been successfully fishing under sail for thousands of years. And I can only applaud you on having the balls to design a vessel to do just that. |
Actually I was working on a Motor/Sailer design back in '89,'90 when Lock Crowther was begining work on the TaraVana design. That prompted me to consider a little more engine power and that older mainsail-less rig design of mine.
The key word was NO Mainsail. As I point out on my website, "I'm well aware that once a large gamefish is hooked, the vessel must get rid of all sail quickly, with minimum effort, and get under power."
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| Originally Posted by cranky But I have to ask why the wierd rig that will undoubtedly at some point in time break. I can see at a glance at least 3 places where the loads must be incredable to keep the thing up while under sail. To sail this rig in 15 to 20 in any direction the loading on the mast base and back stays must be off the planet. I can only imagine that if the rig stayed together then the hulls and or cross beams must bend and twist like crazy. Even on a conventional rig this can be a major issue. |
Can't get into defending the rig design at this time, nor on this forum. If you care to look at the aerodynamics of the situation and some of the loading discussions I can point you to numerous discussions on another forum
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| Originally Posted by cranky Now If I were to be designing a vessel to carry out this task I would be looking at the "freedom 40" as my starting point, a medium displacment mono hull with a free standing ketch rig and wishbone booms fitted with lazy jacks. Or maybe take it to trimaran with a similar rig, I do not belive that you could make it structurely sound on a cat. |
Interesting that you bring this 'free standing' subject up right now. Wait a few weeks and I will surprise you with a new design I'm working on right now
I promise you will find it very interesting.
In the meantime did you notice this free-standing ketch referenced above in posting #32. Opps,the link was wrong, here is new one,
http://www.hybridfishingboat.org