The conservative viewpoint is that traditional rigs are not very efficient. However allied to efficient hulls and set up correctly, lug and sprit rigs can be very efficient indeed - not too much slower than "modern" rigs, particularly when the same lessons are applied to trad sails and way cheaper.

This is a WIKI drawn from the group on the Storerboats forum discussions on setting up lug and sprit rigs for best performance building on the information in my webpage.

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John Goodman who recently spent 5 days semi racing a Goat Island Skiff in the Texas200 event got back to me with some observations and even some pictures of aspects of the boat and the sailing.

I have responded with suggestions to make some further improvements. Between John and me there are some useful tips about setting up a boat for more speed.

However the standard setup of the Goat is fine for most - it is still pretty quick in standard form.

There is advice for both lug and sprit traditional rigs here.

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This is a list of the latest posts on the Storerboats Forum.

It has information about building, discussions about design, photos of buildings and launchings and much more.

A main interest is tweaking the best possible performance out of traditional looking boats.

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