Cheers Roy
Yes, it's all a bit 'suck it and see' with this one as I've only got the hull and mast to go on, so not even a sail plan but it's going to be fun...
. When it's in a sail-able condition, if I find the rudder is insufficient it will be quite easy to try different sizes and shapes to see what suits it best, now that I've made it fully de-mountable. I'm hoping though that the original builder has sorted out that problem and this one does it's job... fingers crossed !
I'm used to racing my IOM so the multiple suits of sails thing I'm used to, but this boat, due to it's stately age, which due to its design must be somewhere in the region of 100 yrs old, will probably end up as just a light airs cruiser for my club water, to be used just on high days and holidays and the rest of the time a bit of a show-piece.. Mind you having said that it's of very solid construction, being Bread and Butter, so I've no doubt if I do the job properly it will go on sailing another 100 years....