I’ve been desperate to try out my new little 14 foot cartop catamaran, but not desperate enough to tempt fate. For a first sail in a new sailboat (and particularly in a new design) winds should be fairly light. If you take a new boat out into even moderately heavy air, you’re asking for [...]
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Slipper’s lashings, after a trip back to the drawing board
Slipper has made a bit of progress toward completion lately. The scraps of cheap lauan underlayment I used are falling apart where they lie on the dirt, so I thought I’d better get some paint on the hulls before they fall apart too.
I think the hulls are modestly graceful, and I might even leave [...]
