When I make carbon rudder fittings I usually make glass bushings by wraping glass tape around the ss pin, sutably waxed they will come off and can...
The rudder on my UK Cherub does a similar thing the humming will cut in at about 13Kts and get louder and higher in pitch as speed increases....
I am confused about the purpose of the forward canard/wing on the design in the drawings. If the boat is running quickly and gets an upset so...
The foil is normally about 30cm behind the transom so will be running in the area of water that makes up the stern wave. Perhaps if you make...
If you are talking about dinghy's such as the Int 14, then upwind with the foil lifting you move your weight back to bring the trim level agian....
If you put something in the way of the exaust of a turbojet and used it to drive something through a gearbox then that would be a turboshaft...
I like your tube transport idea, I may give that a shot. I have used peel ply strips wrapped tight to consolidate as well as shrink tape and...
Hi, I am planning on making some carbon tubing and because I find it tricky/messy wetting out around a tube I was thinking of using vaccum...
I think it could be done, with a bit of creative thinking. a planing or hydrofoil supersonic boat to be sucsesful would largely be skipping...
How do you define owner built? is purchasing a Carbon rod for the mast outside the owner built concept. You could go totally crazy and say...
Thanks for the answers, I found some interesting stuff looking up the bikes, not all of it relevent like the guy who built a bamboo and carbon...
I need to attach some fittings to a Carbon Fiber mast and I can not see an alternitave to using Blind Rivets The Rivets used already on the...
The catapult is a catamaran with inflatable hulls, there is beam to stiffen them and a fiberglass bow section fairing http://www.catapultcats.com
I was possibly a bit criptic in my earlier post. What I was thinking was that If I were to design a foiler I would go single handed. The...
If you are going for a foiler then you probably do not need an Asymetric as the wind is likely to be too far forward of the beam for it to work....
it would be interesting to see if the next round of boats have more freeboard.
"We know that the boats ... are wet, very wet. At 25 knots of boat speed there is probably half a metre of water on deck .... at 30 knots there is...
If what you want is speed then a multi hull is the way forward These canting keel boats are impressave, however if they could post the speeds...
Racing boats breaking is hardly a new thing. They have been breaking ever since people started racing them. The Sea is a dangerous place and...