S&G - You have cut right to the center of controversy. If you check out the site you will see the Patent Pending "Bow Mounted Daggerboard" which really balances out the
concept. We tried leeboards of course but moving the resistance forward a little further balanced out the sculling
rudder and what is really a
motor boat hull design. It also opens up the
boat space for people and
gear. This is not without precedence, Chinese and Egyptian seafarers have been using the
concept for about 2000 years or so, a Swedish gentleman named Sven Lundin has incorporated the idea into a couple of his long distance cruisers. Believe it or not
inflatable boats ( with inflatable keels I might add) sail very well. They are light and have very high initial stability so they don't heel in the puffs, they just scoot.
Most important is the proliferation of inflatables. I learned to sail on the
family dinghy, an el Toro like sailing, rowing pram. The
family dinghy of today is an inflatable so are we are raising a generation of
power boaters?
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