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D Nice. Questions- Does that first sequence of overhand knots have a name? Why not use a single bowline?

Thank you. Others also agree the author's comment is ill advised. However, I think you're being unfair in general about the book however - it's filled with much useful detailed information otherwise from someone who clearly loved sailing and motivates the reader to do the same. The book was...

Thank you.

In "Dinghy Ownership - Mainly for the Non-Racing Man", Geoffrey Nightingale (1956) opines that one should, for safety while single-handing or otherwise, attach a mainsheet, or other line secured to the dinghy, to one's lifejacket, in the event of becoming separated from the boat. Can anyone here...

In an uncontrolled gybe, a sailor could get knocked off the boat and dazed, with the stopper holding the boat on a run.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, under-cambered (or flatter) at low speed. Bernoulli Law's (conservation of energy for incompressible, laminar fluid flow) explains it all. There is a larger forward of the net force component, averaged over the entire foil with the asymmetrical air foil that develops...

In Geoffrey Nightingale's classic book "Dinghy ownership ..." (1956) (page 84), he states that the CE on the mainsail moves forward with motion. This has me puzzled, unless one can argue that the Bernoulli pressure gradient has a larger forward component due to its more curved shape as it...

Understood - thanks. Nothing like the voice of experience. No sheet on me then after checking for good weather. I think Nightingale's dinghies also in some cases, included a jib, so they could keep sailing away. I get it that not the case then with the Sunfish.

Thanks for the advice! I was concerned about sailing alone in Pamlico Sound at Ocracoke Island, NC (while staying within 1/2 mile of the shoreline) but getting hit unexpectedly by some large swells and being knocked off the boat. Nightingale is likely referring to larger, wooden dinghy's (his...

I read in Dinghy Ownership by Geoffrey Nightingale that one should, for safety while single-handing or otherwise, attach a mainsheet, or other sheet secured to the dinghy, to one's lifejacket, in the event of becoming separated from the boat. I would be concerned of getting tangled perhaps...

Excellent trailer/dolly with an important exception - my kit did not have the locating bolts attached to the springs!!! I had followed the assembly figure and thought it odd that the bolts weren't shown in "Step 3", but didn't realize the import of the missing bolts in question. Trailer was fine...

After loading/unloading several times in the boat ramp asphalt parking lot with your rig design, and a small caster dolly found placed where the stern touched down to protect the gudgeons, I found the process just too unwieldy for my physique (I tended to lose control at the angled lean position...

Only ziplocks attach the PVC to the roof-rack; so not strong enough most likely so a winch would end up snapping/fracturing/breaking the assembly at your X. Perhaps attaching the mini-winch to a roof-rack crossbar (I have one on my Thule rack), but then you have the winch attaching/removing time...

I built a duplicate of your cartop carrier (4" thin walled PVC, 80" top segments ziplocked to my Jetta Sportwagon roof rack). However, I now realize you are a bigger stronger lad than me, as I struggled to get the bow positioned on the yoke for the final push upward (I'm a 5'10", 190 lb, 64...

Clever! It appears to be 4" thin wall PVC??