On Jun 8, 7:00 pm, wrote:
On Jun 6, 12:10 pm, wrote:


Sounds then like the boat just should not be built light weight at
all.


Many people attempt to change knowns. In these hulls, the older ones
that meet and fit this design according to plans, used a topsail for
additional sail area in lieu of increasing the mast height and sail
area. The other side of the coin is that you have addtional rigging to
deal with too. Keep in mind that most all the traditional built boats
were built using oak, hear pine, and many other heavy timbers and add
that to the issue that these boat used to reside in the water
fulltime, which is not the case now.

On the other side of the coin, in lite winds, the boats were under
sailed, but never meant to be race horses, just work boats which on
occasions were used for weekend races. Some were even built for
pleasure by the older guys as these were the pickup truck of old days.
Every single boat is a compromise in one form or the other.

If a person truely does not like solid wood scantlings, just use
heavier plywoods, which is nothing more than an experiement in the
wrong hands of amateur or backyard designers. [insert wink]

Take one thing from this conversation, shallow draft boats, no ballast
are tender boats in the wrong weather and varible weather conditions
such as happens along Bogue Banks. Tidal changes causes what should be
a nice afternoon sail to a wet one.