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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 11-01-2024, 17:05
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

Since you are in the PNW, you may recall a product called "Cold-Cure". It was put out in the early '70s by Jim Peters in Coquitlam (Vancouver, B.C.). The stuff would cure under water - yes, really!...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 10-01-2024, 16:11
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

MicHugh said: "As an engineer, I marveled at the use of concrete for the boat material. I don't recall the scantlings, but the hull must have been 2-3" thick above the water line."

For years and...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 10-01-2024, 08:25
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

MicHugh sez: "Interestingly, the docks at my marina are made from concrete,..."

An excellent way to build a pontoon. The pontoons at my marina are also "concrete". Nor is it very difficult to...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-01-2024, 19:21
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

Alex:

What, precisely, are you hoping to gain by flogging this particular dead horse? Are you hoping that the many competent and knowledgeable people in this forum will give you an education in...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 22-12-2023, 15:06
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

MY research, consisting of having grown up on a push-bike, much of the time without holding on to the handle bars and struggling against a SERIOUS headwind, sez that there are THREE components to the...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 01-12-2023, 09:29
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

NewAlexandria:

What, PRECISELY, are you hoping to achieve with your posts on this forum?

It should be clear to you, now that we are eighty-odd posts into it, that no-one is buying your...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 29-11-2023, 06:38
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

No, no, no - We don't wanna do that till "someone" has explained what a "zero displacement sailboat" is.

Best if it be done with reference to Adam Smith, Carl Marx, Christ and the Prophet. Isn't...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 28-11-2023, 14:14
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

Prolly cos they've been too busy to read Smith - let alone Marx :-)!

TP
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 28-11-2023, 10:44
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

NewAlexandia sez: "Most of those authors about boats I read have clearly standing out ego..."


HUH??? Who does :-0)?

TP
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 17-11-2023, 13:35
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

I don't think we "misunderstood" anything at all - but maybe NewAlexandria did ;-0)!

TP
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 17-11-2023, 09:23
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

Alexandria:

Bowdrie's advice to you is ABSOLUTELY sound!

He sez: "Oh, get some literature/book on "Lofting", you'll learn that lofting is the essence of boat building, and it'll teach you...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 16-10-2023, 09:48
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

No, you are not "wrong" :-)

But I do think you are confused. You seem to be trapped in some notion that advertised claims and published numbers represent some kind of "truth".

They most...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 15-10-2023, 16:28
Replies: 205
Views: 22,480
Posted By TrentePieds
Re: What made Pilot Cutter so fast? Just rumors?

You are missing quite a lot :-)!

Pilot cutters were only "fast" for their time and in relation to other working craft. Subject to the minimal differences in STW ("Speed Through the Water") that...
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