Quidnon

[ This is a guest post from Ray, who sailed off from San Francisco some years ago and has been living as a sea gypsy ever since. Sea gypsi...

[ On weekends this blog takes a break from designing QUIDNON. Here is a recycled article of mine from some time ago. ] The world is full...

The cabin layout is designed to work with lots of people milling about. A representative scenario is as follows: a bunch of people have show...

Water tanks; chain locker Water is what makes life possible, and salt water doesn't work too well for humans. Drinking it is a very b...

QUIDNON's rudders will be set up similarly to the centerboards (off-centerboards?)—one on each side—because the same reasoning applies. ...

On most point of sail QUIDNON will sail just fine without using a centerboard. The chine runners will trap enough water along the almost ...

Ballast is what allows sailboats to carry sail, by keeping their masts more or less vertical in spite of the forces generated by the sails. ...