Oh that's a cool resource.
Lots of the converted big boats weren't good when they started and they converted even worse. Also a goodly portion of boats built by owners...
Partial ownership operated, to my knowledge the only request the owners had was main brand and color. They honestly believe all boats in that size...
It's definitely possible we are well past the Era of forums. Not entirely sure where all the data has gone, probably Facebook and YouTube. At...
Ah yes I remember Webb. Spoke to admissions, about the time the towers fell. Was hard for a kid from Alaska to comprehend going to the east coast....
Motivation for the question was some experiences recently, in the early stages of build planning. Decided to go down the rabbit hole and use the...
Interesting, I was thinking Collegiate level. Had wanted to be an architect many years ago but got talked out of it for a different stem field....
Do modern naval architecture programs require some sort of residency or internship? What is the standard, or is there a benchmark of practical...
Probably the most popular boat design between puget sound and Kodiak as well as everywhere in between. Cold water, bayweld, norvelle, king fisher,...
Sort of looks like a cope 34, or s homebuilt adaption of it. Different visor and slightly different nose. West coast alloy boat building is as...
I love the acr setups. Have two circuits on my current boat, they work great. My last boat got one somewhere around 2018, sold the boat in 2022...
As mentioned above the range that they cover is very broad. Would think only down side would be less flex.
When we did my fish hold bulkheads and walls we tried to get real solid numbers out of the manufacturers for r factor. Nobody would give a hard...
Got to love the prodigious use of structural csm... and the janky welds follows inexplicably with quality lathe access and use. Moral of the...
So your biggest concern is it's inability to traverse rough terrain? It's a drawing of two rubbish bins affixed to what amounts to a park toy with...
Solgatos link brings up an important point, that being the capacity to film it. Since the trio left top gear the world had been devoid of middle...
Crawled through quite literally hundreds of bay boats over the last 20 years. Cut the bottoms and rotted fish holds out of about a half a dozen...
Well I definitely want to see one in action.
The bay is its own monster, I've crawled through and worked on more of those boats between work and owning them. It's sporadically the wild west...
I'm a bit younger so when I spent multiple winters cutting out poorly done double hulls in bay boats they were to old to be air tight. First was a...