You forgot two rules for both building and design... Rule 0 or Alpha... Have plenty of coffee available.. Last rule or Omega.. Have a bottle of...
I don't trust anything electronic, or that gets between me and control. Whilest I've used a joystick on an electric motorboat for the disabled on...
You don't have to have a rudder in a drum to have a lifting inboard rudder.. I've seen several boats where the rudder has a conventional shaft,...
Not predicting the future... I designed my little sailing boat for sixteen footer to compete in the Allcomers B class which is Up to 17.5foot....
They were essentially freighters, intending to find a route to the Spice Islands, They would be hoping to toss much of the ballast overboard to...
With such a slow boat, fancy NACA or other shapes are not going to work, you'll never get laminar flow to any extent.. You will however get some...
There are plans for a plywood 2.4mR 2.4mR | 24mr.se. I designed and built my own boat a little bigger than the 2.4mR, but of a style more used...
Some what older.. Log boats from "edge of a lost world" discovered in prehistoric Peterborough | Culture24 Similar boats have been found in and...
An old design style of boat was nicknamed a "lead mine" they were long, thin, had a very low coach roof, if any, but gave full head room because...
That article along with this.. Keel and Rudder Design Methodology – Vacanti Yacht Design LLC (vacantisw.com) scan down and click on the pdf.. Were...
All this propeller going straight into the wind is much to modern, it's been going on for years.. Scroll down to the Bembridge Redwing, of 1934...
ooh what a load of buzz words, how about talking in English, this is engineers you're wanting, They won't be impressed by buzz word bingo.. ILS.....
As said above it's your local regulations, which I understand varies from state to state in the USA.. and the other consideration ...your budget...
Many boat round here have an anchor winch, remote controlled from the helm, the motor and chain hidden up in the pointy bit no one uses below decks.
You would need side stays to the front of the forward projection up top, or as soon as you put the pressure to the top would twist off. But of...
Round here, he'd be done for speeding, , no broads tax, probably no insurance, The boat would fail it's Safety certificate for an insecure fuel...
if it's allowed by the class rules I'd be tempted to replace it entirely with Fibreglass, the floor bearers in our class have the same problem so...
A great many Dinghy trailers in the UK are still manufactured with 8 inch wheels, they are capable of meeting all UK transport regs and quite safe...
it was later admitted that rolling the Reliant Robin was only acheived by putting smaller wheels on one side and the front, and on a slope. With...
I've been out in the North Atlantic in a 50 hp Diesel inboard Lobster boat several times, waves like that are small...
