B Garner wrote:
Hoping someone here can help me out.

I am looking to build a trailer sailor. About 14 to 15 foot in length which
is suitable for overnight trips.
I found the Kingston 15 and ordered the plans.

http://www.angelfire.com/ks/diyplans/kingston15.html

These arrived quickly and are detailed. In the meantime, I had read some
bad comments about this design in the bateau forums.
The opinion is that it has too much windage and could be unstable.

Had any of these "bad comment" people actually sailed the boat?

Looks OK to me. Of course it will have more windage than a
daysailer, how coould it not? This design looks relatively
clean though. Are they trying to compare it to a 470?

I like the sitting-up headroom. A big big plus.

As for stability, I don't like the high coamings because as
the boat heels, they force the skipper & crew's weigh
inboard at a time when they should be moving out. But the
coamings will keep you a lot drier than you'd be otherwise.
Everything is a compromise.



Looking at the profile it seems similar to many other designs.

Such as
http://www.zeglarstwo.sail-ho.pl/szt...rplan.html#dok

to name one free one. And many other similar designs.


I like that one better, I think. The double chine will add
building time but it will sail much better. From these
drawings, it's hard to tell what the finished boat will look
like. It might not look as well-proportioned as the first
one. A foam panel in the head of the mainsail would be
better than a masthead float IMHO.


Does anyone here have any opinions on this.


Boy do we ever!

Would you consider building in foam core instead of plywood?
It's more expensive of course, but the boat would come out
weighing approx 1/2 as much. The boat would sail *much*
better and be easier to handle overall. You could then add
ballast for stability and still have a lighter better boat.
No worries about rot, either.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King