Slider’s first sistership hit the water for the first time on Saturday, February 20th, 2010. Dean Pacetti built Honu (Polynesian for turtle) at his home in Florida. I should mention that Dean was the second person to buy plans for Slider. At the time Dean bought his plans, I’d only completed half [...]
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Slipper, Real Soon Now!
Slipper proceeds toward completion in fits and starts. I must admit that my second attempt to design an original kind of boat has been a bumpier road than the design of Slider. With Slider, everything was very conventional, except for the in-hull seating on a boat that small. Even the unusual sprit-sloop rig was [...]
Running rigging details
Slider has a sprit-sloop rig– fairly unusual for a multihull. I chose this rig for a number of reasons, and I like it a lot, but it is a bit more complicated to set up than a more conventional rig. In the course of drawing Slider, I came up with a few ideas [...]
An unexpected pleasure
Last spring I had no idea I would ever offer plans for Slider. People had asked me about plans, even before I started building the prototype, but my usual response was that it seemed like a lot of work for very little financial return. Besides, who knew if she would be a boat that [...]
