Recent content by Greg2

Point taken. We'll likely reach that point once we get more experience under our belts. We're just getting started.

Fortunately, we're quite happy to sacrifice a bit of convenience for better stability, so no roller-furling sail for us.

Good point. I had not considered the racers point of view. I approached the problem from the conservative cruiser point of view - sacrificing some speed for stability.

Thanks for the help (with clarity). For the record, given an average 8000 kg sailing vessel with a 17 meter mast, we're talking a movement of the location of the COM upwards from the keel of less than 1 cm. Upon reflecting as to how I might have tested this with a scale model, it's obvious...

Hi, my name is Greg. I suppose I could be classified as an armchair physicist, in that I don't have any formal training in the subject (outside of high school physics) yet I persist in retaining the notion that I understand a good bit as it applies to my everyday experiences. I enjoy...

I understand the concept, but wouldn't say that I'm terribly familiar with it.

I'm in the process of purchasing a sailboat for open ocean cruising and would like to understanding how a mass (say 1kg) mounted at the top of the mast affects the center of gravity, assuming that the COG is at a known location relative to the waterline.