mchl: That's what I was looking for! Thanks. I figured that there might be a simple way to generalize this.
Thanks for the input Gang! Ad Hoc: No. I bet that if you surveyed 100 small fishing vessels in the fleets I operate in 0 would have a...
Hello All, I am familiar with the concept of a free surface effect and it's effect on vessel stability. In one of my fisheries we routinely...
Chickadee, The rudder balance issue is more apparent at higher speeds. The faster I go, the worse it gets. Following seas do not affect this....
Guillermo, The older wooden boat is my friends. His fishing cockpit is quite a bit lower than the main deck. He loads the boat till water comes...
No, no stability test. I don't know of any older boat this size that has undergone stability testing.
Robherc: A friend has a narrow wooden boat from the late 1940s which had an 3'-4' aluminum stern extension added in the 1980s. Like TollyWally...
Guillermo, I use the staybees when the weather is crummy. Generally 25kts or more and working the net. We spend alot of time laying in the...
Tom, Thanks for the info. I believe that I have seen rudders like the one in the article you mentioned. I can probably get a copy at the...
Hello all, I have a 36' x 11' gillnet boat that I fish in Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound. Over all it's a good boat. It packs around 12k...
