My own design has the components I like to see in my ideal cruising boat. Swing keel, which is not that obvious when you sit in the saloon....
As a perspective customer, I don’t care about individual design. I want to get a boat for a low price and with good performance. If indeed the...
I have to sign off from the forum for some weeks and return to my job. Jonathan, you are in good hands here. My travel experiences are already 25...
If you think about the geographics in Europe than there are the alps, which have to be crossed, when you go from North to South. The Rhine...
I was looking for a picture of a 40 foot sailboat under full sails in front of the Dom in Cologne at the Rhine river. You get the same picture all...
Oh, the tree is still there?
Thank you Rob, I was telling him already and I guess, he is referring to me "A more knowledgeable associate here thinks $100K is possible."
The main price and efficiency difference of brush type or brush-less motors is how you create the magnetic field of the rotor or stator. If you...
Inquisitor, look in the yellow pages for local aluminum profile. Get a quote on a custom profile. The cost for the matrix, or however that part is...
Hi Rob (jl), I may misunderstand your approach. Please clarify You want to build over a male mold. This appears to be not a good solution...
A heavier boat requires more power, regardless if you accelerate or keep it in speed. I think for your perspective trip, plywood is the better...
Let me try to draw a larger picture. Between 1999 and 2005 ~ 400,000 jobs in US were lost due to job transfer to China. Most of these jobs came...
I’ve seen that efficiency thing before and as an EE caught of course also my attention. However, here is some other math. Lets say the panel puts...
Hi Jonathan, since your hull is not planning but only displacing, the hull length, surface smoothness and area should be the only factor impacting...
If you use a kite instead of a sail and mast, you wouldn’t heel either. Use your expertise in AE and design a kite sail, which can do better than...
http://web.mit.edu/solar-cars/www/flash/car/the-car.shtml If I'm not mistaken it is about 2 $ per Watt and 1/2 m square per 100 Watt and falling....
For the unidirectional (0) fibers, I was considering single fiber strands and not wooven. Use wooden blocks on both ends of the mast, packed with...
Hi Jonathan, Neckar, Heidelberg, good choice. No, I didn't have a cat. My boat was 10X3.3X1.5 m. I would say up to 4 meter wide, 18 meter long...
I made it once from Berlin, Germany to Sete in France. Record mileage 50 a day, record # of locks 25 a day. Total # of locks Berlin-Sete ~ 240. I...
For an aluminum mast I was using two L-profiles for the mast head. For a fiberglass mast, we can hopefully come up with a better concept. Is the...