Pilot House / Coach Roof Camber

[messabout]

A very good reason for much camber is a structural one. If you are to span 10 feet then you will need some pretty hefty beams to support the skin. Hefty beam: that means that they will need considerable depth....depth means that headroom is infringed. But cambered beams can be made so that they need not have so much depth. More camber equals less beam depth and visa-versa. Smaller cambered beams will be lighter and produce less top hamper too.

Sorry about that. I realize that you are speaking of aesthetics not structural issues, but sooner or later the build detail will become important.

Canadians eat Ketchup flavored potato chips - That boat's camber does look good, however. Its just under three inches in just under six feet if their drawings are to scale.

[hoytedow]

We eat ketchup flavored potato chips in Florida too. A habit no doubt picked up from our Canadian friends. They go very well with Alaskan halibut.

[kapnD]

Potato chips have a nice camber, I like Ruffles!
How about a corrugated quonset roof like a WWII barracks?
Strong as hell, could be painted red with nonskid to resemble ketchup flavor coating.

[Submarine Tom]

I used 7 inches of rise (arch) over 9 feet of span on a 10 X 25 foot barge

houseboat and found it adequate in every way.

-Tom

[LarryMcI]

5 degree stanchion bases are common, for a reason; railing supports should be close to vertical. On decks or rooftops, 5 degree slope (at the outboard edges) is sufficient to assure drainage. I designed 16' wide roofs, for a large catamaran, that slope 4 degrees at the outboard edges. This assures that railing stanchions slant 'inward' slightly, to minimize toe-stubbing.

Did you just get into my computer when I clicked on your ********, Anthony, or is it simply unwanted advertisements?

[Submarine Tom]

Originally Posted by mark775

Did you just get into my computer when I clicked on your ********, Anthony, or is it simply unwanted advertisements?

WTF are you talking about?

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by Submarine Tom

WTF are you talking about?

Spam disguised as a comment on the thread, with links to advertising. He was wondering whether he wound up with a trojan when he clicked on the one of the links.


The same spam showed up on a whole slew of threads; it's been deleted.