Thanks for the compliment, but I think there is much less skill involved in steering with a rudder than with the sails.
Daggerboards are complex to install, much more so if they are going to survive a collision. The latest rudders only rotate 60 degrees as they are double ended sections.
As you say, the first schooner rig will be educational. Times like these, I wish I had kept the two masts from El.
rob
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:46 PM, LucD <lucjdekeyser@telenet.be> wrote:
You make a lot of sense, but you are also, like Nol, an excellent sailor.
To me a daggerboard remains much more simple than an almost 360 degree rotating rudder. And I have industrial strength rotation devices already on the outboard(s) or using the differential between two e-props, below let's say 10 knots, or using the sails effectively at higher speeds. As this should be easily tested on the first schooner vis I'll be quickly convinced one way or another.
The rudder/prop combination is the mounting of an electric propeller on a track on the rudder like you drew for the Seabbatical.
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