Been meaning to attend one of their races, just didn't work out this year.

Scotty

"DSK" wrote in message
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"Scott Vernon" wrote:
How would the sailing canoes down by St. Mikes compare?


Don't really know. The log canoes best point is in relatively light air. I
don't know what they clock. The skiffs plane easily but a 25' + waterline
give these log canoes pretty good 'legs.' From what the numbers suggest,
I'd give the nod to the skiffs.



Donals Dilemma wrote:
We have a canoe called
The Payne Mortlock Sailing Canoe
http://www.bsyc.asn.au/pmc
Cool boat, twin hiking planks and quite fast but wouldn't be a patch
on an 18' skiff

I found another link with a small pic of the boat. Looks a good bit more
sophisticated than the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes.
http://www.logcanoes.com/

The log canoes are very exciting to watch. They originated as 'buy boats'
collecting oysters from the skipjack fleet and racing them to market. As
more importance was given to just racing them for fun (although large sums
were and still are wagered on them) they got sleeker and piled on more
sail. Some of them have three or four hiking planks. IMHO the silly
topsail doesn't add much drive but it adds a lot of style. Howard
Chapelle's books have a lot of details & plans of some of the log canoes.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

A classic design idea! Why was it banned?

Cheers MC

Donnys Dilemma wrote:

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:38:10 +1300, The_navigator©
wrote:


It would be faster if the designer had paid more attention to the wetted
area in planing trim. She's too wide and flat IMO. Look at skiffs.

Cheers MC


Built a skiff with a stepped hull and tubes to introduce air into the
step.....It was banned!


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Donnys Dilemma wrote:
Built a skiff with a stepped hull and tubes to introduce air into the
step.....It was banned!


I've seen this tried on multihulls too. I've been told that it is difficult to
design a step so that it doesn't cripple the boat below certain speed
thresholds, or so that it's not very sensitive to longitudinal trim. Did you
have to play around with it much?

I like the idea, the step and the tubes both would help make the hull more
rigid.


The navigator© wrote:
A classic design idea!

Sucking up to Oz1 are you, Navvie©? You're still a bad loser and a welsher.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Seems to me that the skiffs are fastest. I have raced a 505, Flying Dutchman and Tornado (to compare). The 505 and FD are not that fast relative to the quickest. E and A scows will kill them even in a sea. The A-scow is fast, but I would bet it would be 25% slower than a skiff because the skiff is close to a Tornado according to the Aussie postings I have seen and the A-scow is not unless there is no wind. Also, my experience is that a Tornado with only the main up will tie the best sailboards around a course, but that the shortboard speed sailboards are a lot faster on a reach.