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This is nice:

Craig  If it is that dam nice put a picture we can see. sea Bud

This is actually a mistake, but now that Craig has gone and done it, I should say something about her.

I did the above boat a long time ago and it's one of my hand drawn designs. It's a set of shapes that were once quite common on protected waters. When I converted to digital, it's appendages were updated, so was it's rig (a Bermudian is available) and it also has a round bilge version. It's an easy boat to sail well, but can reward mistakes with a good soak, while you think over what went wrong. It's light, fast, agile and has pretty ends. Her lines are at the end of this post, as I can't seem to move them into the middle of the text.

The bigger pictures where the images I was trying to post on the Hobie 16 thread, before I managed to corrupt it completely. I was talking about SA/D ratios and having enough horse power to get things happening. Then I mentioned Weekender having in the high 18 to low 19's, depending on displacement and that with the Hobie rig it would be in the low 30's, firmly placing her in hot rod territory. That's when I elected to post the two RYD-14.6 images, which also have a fairly high SA/D ratio (27 up wind and near 40 down wind).

In defense of these seemly quite high SA/D's you'll also note the RYD-14.6 has a foil attached to it's rudderhead (it has another forward, not shown) and clearly is built for one purpose. It will not warn you if you screw up, it will just dunk you in the drink so sail in warm water folks. The cool thing about boats like this, is you can sail faster then the wind most of the time and passing small powerboats is a real joy in a sailboat.

To finish my "go for it" comment on the Hobie thread, be for warned of the usual result, with these high power rigs on novice and inexperienced sailors. A novice sailor wouldn't be able to get very far from the dock with RYD-14.6 (a few hundred yards maybe) and maybe not much further in a Hobie 16 rigged Weekender.
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Two things Bud:  One, Ya really have to work to get Paul out of the closet with these designs.  Secondly get new glasses hoser!  8) 8) 8)  ( I couldn't see it well either but one works with what one has)

Better image of RYD-12.7

lOL craig*glasses*
Paul thats a really good looking boat, lookslike something I used to have , well similar sort of. looks like she'd be a blast in the bays and such.

Brian.

Brian, RYD-12.7 is one of my first designs and is probably about 30 years old. At the time I knew it would compete well under Portsmouth, though with it's original Bermudian rig, she got a better "number". It was at this time things were changing dramatically in small boat design. The bluff bowed, planning daysailors like the Laser (and others) all started to gain popularity. This placed the other classes at a disadvantage.

Originally, she was about 100 pounds heavier and lightly framed out, but with the transition to digital, several modifications, including a taped seam conversion that stripped weight and many structural elements from her.

She's a great lake boat. She will not get embarrassed by any modern dayboat, except performance planning dinghies will get you down wind. You'll kill them up wind (with the Bermudian rig of course). If you fly a chute, you'll stay with them down wind. A well built RYD-12.7 could be had for less then 5K.

There used to be fleets of this style of boat on most rivers, lakes and small bays around the country. They were very easy to build and care for, so ownership was modest. They could be sailed leisurely or crisply, so different skill level skippers could try her. They're pretty, especially the round bilge and lapstrake versions, so finding a friend or two to help with dock lines is easy too.

She looks like she'd be a blast to sail for sure and aye, a very purdy boat indeed.
It could be built for under 5000, not bad looks like a good daysailer to go have fun or go exploting some nooks and hidy holes.

I was just looking at it again and i gotta say I really like the look, Nice lines.

Classic styling is easy to make good looking. It's a modern styling that looks good 20 years later, that's hard to do.