FYI - I may get to check out Composite Yacht in Trappe, MD this weekend. They build in the flat panel method and have a 48' long table.
More detail when I get it.
Mark

--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Gardner Pomper <gardner@...> wrote:
>
> Part of the wooden boat design competition is the ability for the design to
> sail to windward in a gale. How can you prove that from a drawing? I am
> pretty sure that my design will float, and it should be fast, but I don't
> know how to calculate upwind performance in heavy weather. Can anyone tell
> me what criteria might be used to judge that?
>
> - Gardner
>