I’m planning a boat build. 16’ balanced-lug dinghy for daysailing. Light and portable but capacious for what it is. Anyway, the designer, Michael Storer, drew the boat the same year “our” oldest kid was born (1993); he came up in dinghy racing in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s. With no commercial viability for the production of racing dinghies there, the whole scene was garage/backyard builds. The aficionados were, according to Storer, “brainy” people—engineers, scientists—people who could work with physics and materials. And people who loved to experiment. This was a highly-organized sport, even though the production of the boats was DIY—and the rules permitted a degree of idiosyncrasy in design and construction, encouraging experimentation.
Trickle-up technology
Trickle-up technology
Trickle-up technology
I’m planning a boat build. 16’ balanced-lug dinghy for daysailing. Light and portable but capacious for what it is. Anyway, the designer, Michael Storer, drew the boat the same year “our” oldest kid was born (1993); he came up in dinghy racing in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s. With no commercial viability for the production of racing dinghies there, the whole scene was garage/backyard builds. The aficionados were, according to Storer, “brainy” people—engineers, scientists—people who could work with physics and materials. And people who loved to experiment. This was a highly-organized sport, even though the production of the boats was DIY—and the rules permitted a degree of idiosyncrasy in design and construction, encouraging experimentation.