20160915

Having discarded sharpies I started thinking about a scow or 'schouw' (Dutch). For a given length, scows provide the highest capacity. Essentially they are floating containers with a sail. On a reach, they can be very fast. Ugly as they are, I am attracted to the PD Racers worth a second look. Or Michael Storer's bigger and faster version, the OZ Goose. These boats are very easy to build. As there is a lot of experimentation going on, you don't have to start from scratch. Many ideas have already been tried by others.

The big question is: is a scow suitable for dinghy cruising? Apart from slamming upwind, I imagine they are very tiring to sail on bigger waves. Their very shape may make it very hard to right a capsized scow in waves.

I will continue my search.