Re: Has anyone modified Surf to take a centreboard instead of a dagge rboard?
Please don't.
While a centerboard may look better, the Leeboard works
just fine. You also have something unique to talk about
with other people. "What is that thing?"
Centerboards or daggerboards must be properly designed
or they will to leak and jam. They are also always in the
way.
I have two friends that wanted to build themselves
"Elegant Punts". (Surfs with 4' missing on both ends.)
I gave them the "The Folding Schooner" book, and they
came up with two more "Elegant Punts".
Neither had ever built a boat, but one is a
"Master cabinetmaker", so I guess that's really not
an example of a "First time builder."
Both had sailed my "Toad", and niether of them liked the leeboard,
and insisted, against my warnings, on putting in dagger boards.
They both leaked, and continued to leak for the lives of the
boats, which was not long, as both left their boats out
in the weather, and both are now piles of delalminated luan.
"Don't put holes in boats."
Pat Patteson
Molall, Oregon
While a centerboard may look better, the Leeboard works
just fine. You also have something unique to talk about
with other people. "What is that thing?"
Centerboards or daggerboards must be properly designed
or they will to leak and jam. They are also always in the
way.
I have two friends that wanted to build themselves
"Elegant Punts". (Surfs with 4' missing on both ends.)
I gave them the "The Folding Schooner" book, and they
came up with two more "Elegant Punts".
Neither had ever built a boat, but one is a
"Master cabinetmaker", so I guess that's really not
an example of a "First time builder."
Both had sailed my "Toad", and niether of them liked the leeboard,
and insisted, against my warnings, on putting in dagger boards.
They both leaked, and continued to leak for the lives of the
boats, which was not long, as both left their boats out
in the weather, and both are now piles of delalminated luan.
"Don't put holes in boats."
Pat Patteson
Molall, Oregon
--- In bolger@y..., John Kennedy <john.kennedy@g...> wrote:
> Just curious to see if anyone has tried it. If so, was it
successful, or
> otherwise?
>
> Thanks.
>
> John Kennedy
Just curious to see if anyone has tried it. If so, was it successful, or
otherwise?
Thanks.
John Kennedy
otherwise?
Thanks.
John Kennedy