Thank you know Noelex
Those are encouraging words originally the boat came off the design board of a very famous architect from last century called Robert Clark he designed the first mega yacht I suppose called carita I think she was a 3 masted schooner and it was still around last year renamed you could
Google the name carita
A friend of mine had him draw the boat for a
circumnavigation she was only 9 and a bit metres 32 feet actually but a big 3240 because she had the cut of transm no overhang
You will notice on the boat that she has quite a deep body and a very good entry so she does not slam going upwind
My friend and his wife sailed the boat around Cape Horn from
New Zealand and even up to
Greenland where I have pictures of her in the ice somewhere on my files
So with permission from them I scaled up the boat but kept the same form I am very wary of boats with big wide transomd as a tend to roll down
wind in quartering seas and I do not like the motion
The French have a
Very successful aluminium boat but the entry is flat and they can park them on beaches and it is called in of
OVNI
Or similar spelling and they are very expensive
I talked to an owner of one down here and he said it was a good boat but very noisy and uncomfortable upwind
The original boat name Kate had a deep fin
Keel which was not very good when you wanted to come and tie up alongside piles to dry out as the Fins would just dig into the ground so he recommended I put on this type of
keel which keeps ballest low but maintains a shallow draught which is very important in the Pacific in the
Fiji Islands where I cruised a lot there are lots of Shadows to bump over
Coral Bombiess and stuff like that
I can't really give you a 3D file otherwise it would May spread around the world and other people steal my design but if you were to contact me in private and you have a program that can open 3D such as drawing exchange files I may be able to talk to you on Skype and if I trusted you enough said with a smile I would share some of the drawings
With the water line at 10:10 I have to move the Rutherford a little bit otherwise it will take care and also I have to change the design of the
Rudder the plan form
Usually I use as heavy
stainless steel stock because it can be much less in diameter than an equivalent aluminium stock then I use 3 millimetre
stainless steel plate for the
Rudder skin itself of course whole thing is isolated I have not had any trouble and it makes a very very strong Rudder I prefer Spade rudders to skegs myself