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Forum: Multihull Sailboats 18-03-2023, 06:39
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

As a non-retired guy still finishing a boat, I have to ask, “what’s a nest egg?” Ha ha ha

That’s what the second gunboat style shipping container is for. You can use it to store your nest egg...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 18-03-2023, 03:23
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

I’ve seen those shipping containers the Gunboat crowd uses. Very nice. They follow the boat all around the world and allow it to be configured in many different ways. Quite a workshop in them as...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 09:34
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

That boat is a BEAST!

A perfect monohull. Love it!

I also don’t know where I forgot that the Dashews had something to do with those. I had thought it was some other marketing name they...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 09:28
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

Here is the sail plan, Tupaia:

Attached.

Centers of effort and lateral resistance included.
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 09:12
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

Fore triangle base is 14.5ft from the bow beam (not sprit).

52ft along the Furler up to the fractional rig attachment point from the bow beam.

Blade area is 362 square feet? hoping my math is...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 08:40
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

Except I'm not buying new sails until after I use the boat.

I think I can live without the 10% this summer.

I'm sticking to the plans and the typical setup fot similar boats these days.
...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 07:11
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

that’s definitely the plan. I don’t know how much life is left in these sails. They are pretty crispy. But there’s some restitching that is needed.

No high roach main here.

Just a pinner. Lol...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 06:46
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

This is a first draft. I fully plan to stop back in the fall to make some adjustments.

it’s a little different on a new boat.

for example you don’t just go right out and start sailing full...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 05:48
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

Wow. I never looked closely at your boat model.

That's a nice lean machine with a ton of sail area.

I can see why you're fast. Not a lot of wetted surface area for so much boat and sail.
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-03-2023, 05:24
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

same here. I can go pretty far off DDW with a symmetrical spinnaker.

i’m not seeing the problem yet. I think he is thinking I will be gybing my way downwind for maximum VMG.

I will be staying...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 10-03-2023, 13:37
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

I have a 25 foot beam. I wouldn’t need a spinnaker pole. Lol

but symmetric is the one that one out in the thread.
...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 10-03-2023, 11:36
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

definitely. I can’t see having a boom up there. I don’t want that either.

so I have a mainsail (crappy triangle top, but I'll use it for now) and a blade jib that came with the rig. I already...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 10-03-2023, 08:14
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

I am underway on my way to the Rigger right now still 600 miles away. So I don’t have this handy while I’m at the helm at the moment.

i’m not sure why I need to go through all of that again when I...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 10-03-2023, 07:11
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

there is absolutely nothing in the plans about how to use the boat. I believe that’s up to the individual user.

Plans don’t tell you when to reef.

i’ll be reefing pretty early because I’m...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 10-03-2023, 04:15
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

so I should get a genniker?

not sure how to fill the hole.

Do they make more durable screechers? They can be used in more wind?

And wait a second. Wouldn't the self tacker be just fine in...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 10-03-2023, 03:49
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

this is a pretty good point.

my solution to this was to have a screecher on a sprit for the more lazy type of use.

That should cover it, right?

so the sail plan is mainsail, self tacker,...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 07-02-2023, 05:10
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

Could be. I don’t know the The Terminology. I just know it’s a little ring that pulls on the sheet. Ha ha.

But yeah that’s what I’m thinking. Just have the self tracker and have the back up of...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 07-02-2023, 03:51
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

I think that’s a twing also.

But instead of a cartoon it’s a real life picture. I real life version. Thanks for posting. So I can’t have a self Tacker with one of those. Or maybe I really don’t...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-02-2023, 15:58
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

yes. Definitely a different set up because this is on a monohull here.

so I agree. It’s an out hauler on mine. Just wanted to get a picture of what a twing is.

I guess this is why I would need...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-02-2023, 15:08
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

yes. I’m actually viewing this as a two-part project here.

i’m going to go in and get this thing sailing. I’m going to use it for the summer. I’m going to find out what things I like and don’t...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-02-2023, 15:02
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

that was the whole idea of building this boat actually. Trying to push back the "screw it, I'll motor" wall.

Historically throughout my entire sailing life there has never been enough wind. Only...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-02-2023, 14:51
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

It’s really a tough call about wanting self tacking or not. I think I do. But I often set up things and never tack. I’m a cruiser. I'm lazy.

what I do is I set my course, then I adjust the sails...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-02-2023, 14:49
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
Re: My Multihull Rigging Thread

I am sorry for the misleading statement in the opening message. He was talking about putting extra bolt rope on the jib. It doesn’t need it. It lived on that Furler. That’s where it came from to...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-02-2023, 13:40
Replies: 65
Views: 5,224
Posted By Chotu
My Multihull Rigging Thread

So, even working with a really high level professional guy, I still have lots of decisions to make. And they are not easy because I have no idea what to do with them.

So the first decision I have...
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