TENDER by EBB -- Or The WayWide

Ebb

looks fun, will the sheer of the final dink reach the deck of the Ariel when installed?

I can't wait to see the optional sailing rig!

cheers,
bill

What do you think, bill,
better that it goes all the way to the deck??
Less likely to be stripped by a comber. That's good.
Could take that nice (to me) sheer and have it sit nearly flat on the deck. Donoboutthat.?!

Couple more inches in the sheer of a bitty boat this size wouldn't hurt none.
When would it start looking boxy and ungainly?
Can stretch this hull some, start loosing anchor and sail handling on the Ariel bow.
Longer hull on the pram, higher freeboard might be more natural.

Would be nice to squeeze two adults in WayWide, regular sized ones, and some groceries - and more freeboard might be just the ticket to ride.
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Frank,
Shoot mon, could put Larry under one arm and Lynn under de other. Scale has always been a problem here. There seems to be a sliver of snubnosed scandihovian resemblance, but he has the high smoothe forehead of a wise and fortunate man.

Fine job Dr. Borregaard!

The beautiful shape you have come up with can not be any less rowable then my current injection moulded 'affordable nightmare'.

Really look forward to your going into production on this fine boat!

Fine job Dr. Borregaard!

The beautiful shape you have come up with can not be any less rowable then my current injection moulded 'affordable nightmare'.

Really look forward to your going into production on this fine boat! Please put my name on the list!:D

Thanks! Craig.
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WayWide was developed over a form. Learned a lot about fair curves in individual 'planks'. I would love to spend full time on the tender as a project that would lead to a versatile support boat with a removable transom. Has anybody done it befor with the transom? If you see one like WayWide let us know.

Maybe software could be invented that would generate custom open transom prams for other small sailboats like Ariel with dog houses and coach roofs. There are plenty of them still around.

Maybe two WayWide's could be attached end to end? [If the transoms were vertical, yes.]

It's essential to have a rigid form to find the boat you want. Cut it here, fur it out there, a little deadrise here, some rocker over there! Soon it's the boat that's telling you what it wants.
Every plank has its double - usually the first plank has a doorskin pattern. Right now most of the boat is standing up in a closet. After full testing we'll set up the frame again and come up with the next generation. If time don't run out. Doorskin patterns come out of that process. A set of final patterns is made from which the shell is cut. Infinitely reproducible.

So I'm saying the patterns exist. An Improved WayWide could be a very different boat.* So we'll be doing it again, if time don't run out. Anybody interested, talk with me about it, OK? If you want to try developing one yerself, well you know me, tireless! Know what not to do with good ole stitch and glue.

When you buy a kit boat you don't need the frame anymore. Just two transoms (or two points like a kayak) and a temporary center frame that could with clever planning also become part of the tender. And you find a suitable flat place and wire it together! Man, what a revolution good ply, good wire, good glue, and good cloth makes happen. By the way, stranded picture wire instead of copper works just fine.

I can tell you it's rediculously easy to stitch these thin planks together. Really.
I think with a dvd accompaning the kit specific to the boat, anybody could put one together. If you see it you can do it - some good tips and it's a piece of cake. Putting the cloth on was pure magic! I found out what bias was all about.
Engineering? Now, that is another thing - making it sail and row and putt, that's the thing. Maybe that's each to their own discretion once the shell is agreeable.
Making and marketing a kit isn't a reality. That's work!

I believe all dinghys are public domain.
A better dinghy is always a wet dream.
Hope time don't run out......
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*For instance: IF the bow transom is widened - and because the sides are bowed - widening may bring the dinghy back to a more traditional shape where the mid section is as wide if not wider than the rear transom.

Removing that long wedge-shape from the middle of the shell took away a piece of flatter bottom. It brought a couple outer planks in that had more deadrise. Sewing the shell back together gave the front underneath there a suggestion of a deeper forefoot. A rowing boat has to have a longer keel, and a forefoot, for better tracking. WayWide's rocker couldn't be erased, with its rising norwidgeon prow. So manipulating those planks could 'push' them down some and make them deeper. Benefit.

OK. If you have this wedge shaped boat, how do you configure the dagger board(s)? Could have a centerboard. That's true, but it's in the middle of everything. Totally innovative or totally stupid would be daggerboards on the sides, even hidden away IN the positive buoyancy space - BUT because the wedgey dinghy would sail on its chine, would it be feasible to have boards more INLINE with the chines??? They would not be parallel if both were down, would they!? THAT would be weird - maybe they could be adjustable to parallel in their boxes IF the distinctive wedge shape of WayWide doesn't change.

Like that.:confused: