top deck I recently had this issue on a large MY, the deck needed to be strengthened for a CL mast. The deck core was compromised, even replaced,...
Design Push This reminds me of the M-craft, or the Air-ride. You have a political push of a constituents technology and cannot understand the...
The "Outboard cruiser" exist already, I saw it last weekend. Its a great idea and it works very well:...
Shapes No, the speaker forms have a simple minimized round frame stood on webs and the fabric tension forms the flare and majority of the shape...
Dress form You could do as BMW did and make a strong frame to strech tough fabric onto for some interesting shape shifting....
Form foamed I suspect the original thread idea cost is greater if a mold is required to either lay-up a skin or to pour foam into for body...
Cored shapes I think its rational, however in my own hovercraft building experience it may be overkill. What advantage does it have over...
Earth I guess I need to clarify, hulls on Earth have skin drag in water due to its viscosity "stickiness". I am not sure what planet it does not....
How long until we can paint the hull bottoms with this new strange material? Come on, someone calculate the reduction of drag without the water...
Stay Please don't leave, I too grew weary of the naysayers here, I left regular activity for a few years. But I am back for the gems and the...
Swath I may have missed it by another poster but the statement of a SWATH being stable is true mostly because it only affected a small amount by...
Full Time I will try to get back here more than every three months, imagine my dismay when I read "Part-Time" was DISCOURAGED by so called...
Cars vs boats? "Mass" produced boats (not ships or Ribs) are luxury items mostly, boat building collapses every 6 years or so due to economic...
Klem flying boat At first I thought you were talking about the Klem "flying boat" I modeled the shape into 3/D and prepared the "plug" files for...
Packard The Packards in the PT 305 were not the RR aircraft version. They were designed and built by Packard and if you like mechanical things,...
Design security If you know how to loft, generate scaled fair frames and fully understand 3/D geometry, you are not usually of a criminal bend...
Fair? I agree about accuracy not being related to fairness. General shape comes first, fairness next (design spiral) and accuracy onto the full...
CAD lofting must! I forgot to add, it is most important that you "preview" any 3/D CAD model with the proper perspective turned on when viewing!...
New to Lofting The task of lofting is one of my favorite challenges and in 26 years of doing so the task is always revealing a new twist on what...
Temporary! You don't need a college education but it helps to be able to do volume/displacement and have some feel or calc's for stability. Many...
