Re: Mirco double-ender

--- In bolger@y..., "brisfan2002" <frtom@m...> wrote:

> I guess some of you mis-understood my question. Is it possible to
> build Mirco as a double-ender(using the bow, as is, at both ends)?
> Would like to know if this would effect sailing in anyway and if

so,

> how much. Thanks.

It isn't so much a question of misunderstanding the question, in my
case, as feeling it isn't going to be sucessful enough to comment
on.

Think of shoes. Can you make a double ended shoe? Consider the
Dutch clog. It wouldn't take much to give the back a bit of a point,
for aesthetice reasons, to sort of support the look around the
front. But I wouldn't recomend taking two toe sections, and glueing
them together. You would change a lot, and some of it wouldn't be
all that comfortable.

With Micro, you would end up affecting fore and aft stability,
displacement, the size of the cockpit, the lateral plane, and so
forth. That is why talking about adding ends makes sense. You don't
change any of the necesary, and might improve certain things.

Overall, it would be helpful if we knew what kind of service you have
in mind, and why. Otherwise we are just stabbing the air.

I guess some of you mis-understood my question. Is it possible to
build Mirco as a double-ender(using the bow, as is, at both ends)?
Would like to know if this would effect sailing in anyway and if so,
how much. Thanks.