goat island skiff sneaky shark at English RAID

Club Racing the Goat Island Skiff – PY yardstick handicap racing

So how does a lug rig boat go in club racing? My designs won’t be outclassed in club racing. I’m really keen to find out how the yardstick (handicap) changes as George and crew get used to the realities of course racing making the boat sail faster. We end up with an estimate of PY – Portsmouth Yardstick for the Goat Island Skiff.

Tornado - composite NS14 by Malcolm Eggins - composite hull, inlaid plywood deck

Thankyou Malcolm Eggins, designer and builder of sophisticated racing dinghies

Malcolm Eggins, boat builder and designer has passed away.

A small tribute to one of the many people that has influenced me and many other sailors and designers. He was a part of the development of Moths, NS14s, VJs, VeeEsses and many other Australian racing dingies as a builder and designer along with his son Darryl. He won several State Championships.

Beth sailing canoe heading downwind with little fuss in British Columbia - article on fleet racing BETH.

How does the BETH sailing canoe go in mixed fleets and handicap racing?

BETH sailing canoe – The designer has lots of fine things to say about the sailing performance of BETH – but Andrew Barclay has been racing his against mixed fleets in British Columbia where she sails equal with Laser Radials in light wind and gradually outclasses them in stronger.

I provide some tips about getting a bit more from the boat.

“Planing” is Bunkum – Myths about Planing, Displacement and semi Planing

It always bugged me about how people said that some powerboats and fast sailing dinghies would “plane” to reach high speed. But multihulls reach higher speed, but they “don’t plane”.

It’s illogical to have two different explanations.

Also how a classical “displacement hull” go much faster on an ocean wave. Theory says it has a speed limit no matter the power you throw in.

I worked out a reasonable explanation for all this but it shows “planing” does not exist.