All I did, was play around with the math from some formulas that I read to better understand them. while doing so, I noticed a odd, and surprising...
Right now my design is at 6' draft for my boat, but I've stretched her and increased her sails, which makes me want to increase her draft. But I...
I deal with prima donna's in my work all the time and so I'm used to working with them. In fact I work with so many of them that I coined a phrase...
I should have laid out my work in detail. Here is what I did: Dave Gerr's "Propeller Handbook", pages 10-12, presents a "Displacement Speed...
I'm reading Dave Gerr's Propeller Handbook and playing around with the formulas. When I combined the formula to estimate the maximum theoretical...
Thanks for the info Eric, much of what you said I've been reading about. It seems that for my dinky boat (at least when compared to the ships that...
Although very little electricity to recognize the movement needed, it would start to drain a battery a bit to actually keep the bed constantly...
82 Page Dictionary of Boat, Ship, Yacht, Nautical Terms / Names This is an 82 page Dictionary of Ship Hydrodynamics. It has lots of boat...
Thanks, that gives me something that I can grab onto and research. If you spend the time to tank test it seems that for a 15m boat, an 8-10%...
That's what I saw in the program. The NA did some computer models, but in the end, they had to do lots of tank tests in may different situations....
Thanks. When I watch this program, it was amazing how the wave of the bow shrank down several feet on this boat and it gave them a large increase...
I'm in the middle of moving this week and so I won't have access to my packed up scanner for awhile, but here is the link of my cutter plans that...
I was watching this TV program (on the science channel I think) where they had gained some serious increase in efficiency for an enormous tanker...
My head is starting to clear up from the recent death of my dog and I'm able to finally start to make some sense out of what you wrote. It was way...
I'll check around in some books and browse some other sites, I'm sure that I'll find the answer. This publications, which a nice 53 page safety...
Flexible Solar Panel Raft Flexible solar panels are now being used on boats--but has anyone mouted them onto a blow up raft that can be dragged...
The final dimensions are 42' LWL, 49' 2-5/8" (15m) LOA, 14'2" beam, and 6'0" draft; ballast will be 13000 Lbs. Here is the basic look...
Thanks to both of you on the kind and insightful words. I want to make clear my original intention on this, which was related to a boat that was...
This is extremely helpful, thank you. The shape of the curve can emulate any logorymic (I could have also said exponential as well) and so it...
My dog Sammie, the greatest beagle ever, just passed away yesterday so I'm pretty sad over it; but it was time. I'm trying to get my mind on other...
