Anyone able to identify this hull? I owned it many years ago and recall it was called a Wildcat, but can't remember the manufacturer name. But I'm...
I've heard in several places, none particularly trusted, that the tradeoffs for stepped hulls only start to pay with very high performance boats....
Down at the sailing club early this morning to do some gelcoat repairs and as always when looking at the transom of my boat, my mind turns to...
Hi, As part of a small electric boat build, I am electrifying a 4 hp 2 stroke outboard with a 6kw ebike motor. It's an easy way to upcycle an...
On a recent walk in a shoreside location that's something of a flotsam/ litter trap (and one of my go to spots for recovery of nice lengths of...
Well, the title sets out my stall. I have long believed that 'pedal assist' eBike technologies will finally take pedal boats into much wider...
Whenever I get the car ferry over to the Isle of Wight, I look at the big, curling stern wave on the port side about 40 feet behind. There isn't...
Hi, I've got a little fibreglass tender here about 10.5 ft long. It's a standard kind of rowing thing with a moulded in keel, except it's really,...
Hi, I'm prototyping a vastly improved LARS ( launch and recovery system), a set of launching wheels for small RIBs employing high volume beach...
Well, it's ready for testing. Anyone want to have a guess what it will do? This is for a magazine article I'm working on, around improving the...
I'm experimenting at the moment with a small outboard, a mercury single cylinder 2.2 hp, on a 2.4 m inflatable zodiac tender. I've derestricted...
The 'rule of thumb' for steps on planing full sized powerboat hulls is they only work efficiently upwards of (insert 40/50/60 knots number of...
I'm looking for some kind of accurate (probably digital) meter of fuel usage that I can put onto a small outboard with either gravity or suction...
I guess it's very rules dependent, but at 40 mph+ surely you're getting into the realms of minimizing water foil size a bit and making the bridge...
Hi, I know there's a pedal boat thread, but it's got 146 pages in it, so I fear this might get lost in there! Plus this is three+ times as...
Anyone got or remember the details of the boat drive system that was using a stainless steel flex shaft? I seem to remember it was low power only,...
This might be a very short thread, but while sorting through a box of lift blades for large RC helicopters (rescued from the FREE section of...
I'm looking to make or source/ get built, or at least research a small, hydrodynamically efficient lightweight liftable stern drive. Initially a...
Hi, I've been searching on here for any info on success stories with air bubble lubrication on small boats, kayaks etc. Surprised to see there's...
Any thoughts of what would happen with the overall drag of a very fine hullform (e.g., rowing shell, racing kayak), if one placed a small lifting...