I still have the original plans from Cuthbertson and Cassian (as they called themselves then) and I think that sometime after you guys sold her and before we got her that the rudder was enlarged considerably. I saw the changes drawn into the plans- the spade was enlarged by at least 20 percent...
To VMG is human, but to bloop is divine. I've used them on a C&C Crusader (Chuck probably did too, on the same boat, a decade or so earlier) a Holland half-tonner, and a Heritage one-ton, the mighty Goldfish. On the latter, I was able to introduce the manifold joys of blooping to the St...
I seem to remember making one sometime in the mid 90's, actually. The design sheet was from well before the days of computer design of any kind and was covered in dust.
Bloopers are not the problem, and boats on which bloopers would work are not the problem. Handicap racing used to be a far more viable and fair alternative to one design than it is currently, and it used to be a place where boats with full water tanks and sets of dishes (and bloopers) could...