About putting a motor in an Albacore - The hull is very round, so the passengers must sit still not to upset the steering. It was designed to be...
New boat Good looking boat, pardon my ignorance of things plastic if I ask what sort it is? My "new" boat is about 50 years old, took about a...
The tension in the luff of the sail is not just bending the pole, it may also be putting it into compression. Apart from calculating the...
Just out of interest, and hopefully not diverting too much from the subject, is the rate of NOx emission really related to the inverse fifth root...
I believe your previous Island is Uotsuri-jima in the Senakaku group, home of the elusive Senkaku mole, Nesoscaptor uchidae. A good post, it's...
Bergalia, I'd hazard a guess at New Caledonia, hence your Scots connection and lovely blue tropical sea. Guillermo, you must be a considerable...
Chichester Cathedral, but still thinking why...
Are we to assume the track and traveller are for the lower mainsheet block? Regards Steve
Trev, 6mm usually 2 - 2.4 kg/sq mtr depending on type. 9mm half as much again. www.marineply.com has lots of info. Cheers Steve
Yes, well close. Actually Waikawa Bay just round the corner. From my parents house you look straight down the High Street to Picton Harbour. It...
Can I have a go for getting Cape Reinga right? One photo is of my father and me in a Ian Oughtred number Pater knocked together in his spare...
Farewell Spit?
That looks like the lighthouse at Cape Reinga NZ. Went there a few years ago, plenty of solar power for the light, we got sunburnt to a frazzle....
PI, To return to your original question, I wonder if response time could be derived in some way from the natural frquency of oscillation of the...
It's not easy to explain without a pencil and paper but here goes ... Yes, your graph's gradient is EI, by definition. Engineers assume E and I...
It must be a material property, given that the deflection is elastic so the moment of inertia (2nd moment of area) is unchanged. I seem to...
Design info Can I recommend a book, How to design a boat, by John Teale. It will explain simply how to find the centre of effort of any rig, and...
