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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:11:18 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Lately I have been drawing and studying more Gardner hulls,
but sometimes a box is just the right tool for the job


Scows are shaped like the lid of a shoebox. They were the fastest
thing around for the best part of a century. Thirty mph sailboats made
of wood. A scows are 38 feet and 1850 pounds. There are now catamarans
with cutting edge technology that may be faster, but only lately,

Casady