Seasonal old timey flavor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXF036tJ-GU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV3xIT94asM
More boats have been built by rack of eye than have ever been designed on paper or computer... combined.
Resistance in a vessel moving through the water comes in 2 formats... friction and wave creation. I expect you are only considering the friction...
WinRaf... could you attach that .fbm (if it is one) so I can play with it a bit?
You have a good chance of causing the suction you are trying to avoid as you lay the boat over on one side of the vee or the other as this...
WindRaf has a novel, and to my mind, pretty good solution although I might go with a bit less deadrise or perhaps a very small flat in the middle...
If you have read my Table Saw thread you have seen the strips I was cutting... those are for the keel and Stem/Stern for this... [img] [img]...
Then I got out the planer and buzzed them all down to .3125" with a couple thinned further to .25" I also smoothed out the Keel strips that I had...
Then I added to the jig a bit to run them vertically through the saw... [img] Giving me this... [img] And finally this... [img] [img] And...
The weather forced me to a plan TGF... I could not let today's weather pass... near 60 and sunny... so I changed plans. I had picked up a...
I think his Wheaties were a little off that morning...
Well... I'm going to get one of these, [img] and make some feather boards and give it another shot. I'll have to wait a bit until I get another...
in a word...no. The ultimate usage of the boat, the conditions it will be used in, and finally esthetics determine the flare, angle or flam of...
So I am looking at a coarser, thicker blade to plow through the wood instead of a finer one that follows the grain? Even a 1/8-3/16" thick blade...
Kenny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXNOF93kj5g
Kelly McGuire "Boat in Belize" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncd52KyPH2Y
