Re: [bolger] Digest Number 5874

I made the stretched dory some years ago, and used is for several years on a river. Just for exercise. I found that in a breeze because of its large bow it would be forced off the wind. The boat has allot of overhangs ...looks beautiful. It would settle down with another person in the bow seat.
If I would use it for sail I would make it into an out rigger. For purely downwind sailing just a square sale would be ok , but were do you store the mast? Perhaps a kite would be better alternative.
I always thought 2 of these hulls would make a very nice catamaran.

warm regards
Pat


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:06 PM,<bolger@yahoogroups.com>wrote:

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Digest #5874

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Thu May 22, 2014 6:30 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

brianincorv

I was looking at Payson's chapter in BTNIB on the stretched light dory, and was wondering about whether a small auxiliary sprit sail would be do-able. I know what Bolger thought about trying to sail one of these, so I want to make it clear that I'm not thinking in terms of making the dory into a sailboat! I'm just talking about a small (say, 50 square feet or less), sprit or other sail, combined with a steering oar, for use in when there's a nice following wind. It seems to me that a boat that rows as well as one of these stretched dories seems to, would be better off only using a sail off the wind anyway. Of course, in the U.S., this leads to title and registration requirements in just about any state.

So: no center, dagger, lee or any other board. No rudder. Just a little simple rig for downwind. For upwind, one would probably make better progress by rowing while the small sailboats are tacking. Kayaks sometimes use small sails downwind.

What do you think?
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