Was trying to figure out what features of water bugs you were trying to draw inspiration from, considering they are best known for getting around...
Don't water striders walk on the surface tension of the water?
My first impressions from your drawing is that big sort of barn door rudder you have along with the short tiller means you will be thrown around...
The information you have from your templates is pretty much the same as what you would get when trying to generate a table of offsets from an...
I read somwhere it is a 3 billion dollar ship with 5 billion dollars of weapons systems aboard. What should the world's most sophisticated surface...
The US Navy awards the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. a contract to build the Navy’s first ocean-going torpedo boat. The 138-foot CUSHING and its...
Actually that Vixen has circumnavigated twice. Their website: http://www.vixensvoyage.com/
I know a couple who circumnavigated with their infant children in a Vixen. I asked him once if he was ever scared. The only time he felt uneasy...
What do you hope to gain? It is just a 13 ft pram.
I don't think you live well idea will be feasible in such a small craft. Paddle boats only draw a couple three inches at their waterline, which...
You have a vivid imagination. Can you imagine man handling inflating and deflating a 60 foot tall 60 foot diameter balloon from the deck of that...
A drawing would help visualizing your design. Paradox is 14 ft long so I can see the compromise for not having a cockpit in that boat, although I...
There are several traditional wooden boatbuilding schools around the country including the Arques school in Sausalito CA....
Typical seasonal summer jobs for college students around here are deck hand on a schooner, or dock attendant at marinas. Being on the water front...
I admire you are willing to do the R&D and many prototypes to perfect a form. I had thought about building an Angus rowboat. Looking at the two...
Just eyballing your design, which does not show a designed waterline. It looks as if your boat does not have much form stability and will be quite...
In boats I have seen around here that have repurposed truck engines the muffler and exhaust stack are piped straight up . The trick is to remember...
Off the top of my head builders of fiberglass traditional boats of that size include. Cape Cod Ship Builders, Classic Boat Shop, and Marshall...
Bataan, As you know there is a strong woodenboat following despite what some of the people on this board think of traditional designs. So while...
I believe the term you are trying to describe is rocker. You are asking how the rocker of the flat bottom should be shaped for speed.
