You wanted more pix, Mike? Here's one of A-M with her sails up and a little montage of rigging details.
I'm often asked, how difficult is the dipping lug to manage? Answer: easier than a conventional, overlapping genoa. It's sheeted in the same way as a normal headsail, with single part sheets leading to cleats or winches (camcleats in A-M's case - the sails are only 60 sq. ft. each) but the inactive sheet leads forward along the lee side of the sail, round the luff and back to its cleat. To go about, you just cast off the active sheet and haul on the inactive one which pulls the clew and whole sail round the luff, flipping the yard across as it goes - if you get the timing right: get it wrong and there's an embarrassing snarl-up :oops:
Yes, that's an engine well. I use a Minn Kota Endura 46 electric outboard, with 150 Ah of power in 2 batteries under the forward thwart - good as ballast. Gives me about 4 hours range at full chat. The Endura's actually a freshwater model, not warranted for marine use, but I 'marinised' it with loads of petroleum jelly, hose it down with fresh water after every use, and it keeps on working o.k.
The hull is epoxy/ply lapstrake, same as Richard's lovely-looking yellowtail. Super construction method, once you've got the plank shapes worked out: just slap 'em together and fill all the gaps with goo.
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