Quote Originally Posted by WESTERNAERO View Post
Rigging pros, explain this to the masses please. Please have your explanations in three different categories. Flat bottoms, hydros and cruiser. Thanks for sharing.
The problem here is that not all flatbottoms, hydros or cruisers are all the same. If you read wannabe's fine explanation above you have to consider that he's offering experience based on 1 particular type of hull design that being a Biesemeyer or the boats that's are copies of. It's likely that his info would carry successfully to some of the other types of hulls but maybe not with others.

There were a ton of manufacturers back in the day and it would be wrong to assume that every manufacturer took the time to perfect every model of boat that they laid up especially if you look back into the 60's and before. Some did, many did not. Those that took the time to perfect their boats generally only did so to their own factory race boats if they had any at all. A list of perfect set ups for every manufacturer and every different model of boat just doesn't exist. For conversations sake, if you bought a 1966 Tiger flatbottom tomorrow your best plan would be to find an identical boat that somebody else has already figured out and copy their set up. Otherwise, you'll have to do a lot of trial and error hopefully ending in success but there's no guarantee.

Some hulls like the Arizona Ski boats Biesemeyer (and all the copy cats- Revenge, D'Cucci etc) or most of the 70's 5/8th runnerbottoms do havea vague number of rigging measurements that get those boats close to if not dead on when it comes to making them work.