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Possibly a major flaw in sailboat design?
wrote in message ... "Charles Momsen" wrote: It was tried here in 2006: http://www.mediterraneanavenue.com/F...likeButter.pdf Some benefits are mentioned. Heck, there were America's Cup boats with forward rudders in the 1980s, and long before that. I remember a guy who raced Fireballs back in the 1960s who built a Fireball with "turret daggerboards" which was a set-up very similar to modern cassette rudders. The poblem he had was the loading on a fast planing dinghy exceeded commonly available home-brew materials back then. Too much deflection in any control linkage he could build made it impossible to control it finely enough. Plus the Fireball is a complex boat to sail, givng the skipper & crew yet one more task to concentrate on was not an improvement. As for controlling canoe-like hulls by balance, check out the St Lawrence skiffs. http://books.google.com/books?id=axf...esult#PPA58,M1 or http://tinyurl.com/6dupkp The "Rudder Like Butter" might be nice but is it really an improvement on "No Rudder At All"? Fresh Breezes- Doug King Great Information Doug! |
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