Re: Today at Elizabeth Island
Posted: Fri May 07, 2021 11:34 am
The windsurfer rig sounds the easiest to rig. With a free standing mast, makes a Cat boat rig, common in the USA.
My vintage Fatty Knees 8' dinghy has a cat boat rig. (It was built in California long ago, perhaps the 1960s. Mast stepped right up in the bow and boom goes just past transom. It performs amazingly well. Has no boom vang, just a rope traveller over the tiller. The sail has a luff sleeve that goes around the mast, same as a windsurfer. To lower sail just pull whole rig out of mast step, as the rig is lightweight. The booms pivoting up gooseneck allows it all to be laid down ok. (However, would prefer the halyard and sail track recent version of rig, so sail could be reduced/ lowered with mast up, this extends its capabilities )
Crab claw rig, as on polynesian voyaging canoes?
My vintage Fatty Knees 8' dinghy has a cat boat rig. (It was built in California long ago, perhaps the 1960s. Mast stepped right up in the bow and boom goes just past transom. It performs amazingly well. Has no boom vang, just a rope traveller over the tiller. The sail has a luff sleeve that goes around the mast, same as a windsurfer. To lower sail just pull whole rig out of mast step, as the rig is lightweight. The booms pivoting up gooseneck allows it all to be laid down ok. (However, would prefer the halyard and sail track recent version of rig, so sail could be reduced/ lowered with mast up, this extends its capabilities )
Crab claw rig, as on polynesian voyaging canoes?