Head sail angle.
Theory of seakeeping by B.V. Korvin-Kroukovsky Dynamics of Marine Vehicles by Rameswar Bhattacharyya AQWA Theory Manual Introduction to...
As a side note of human factors, here is the DoD set. https://rt.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/HE_Design_Data_Digest-acts.pdf Because...
You mean something like this. They solved it by adding shaped bow float, which is a good idea. [IMG]
Welcome to the forums. Have you looked up the IMO rules? Straight cookbook from those. Or does your instructor want you to do it from first...
Yep, that been pointed out in several NTSB loss investigations of Alaska vessels in the past decade...boats converted to fisheries they were not...
Question: you said you talked to the owner after a 5 week underway....were they also the operator (i.e. Skipper or crew)? Or did they hire...
Reading back over this conversation, I think I understand what you are getting at. So here is a touchstone; the service academies (Navy, CG, MM)...
I have always felt that Naval Architecture is one of the last few guild systems. While you can go to school to be taught the theory and math, you...
Also see this thread about being a "designer".... What are the limits of a Yacht Designer?...
Look at this old thread. College? https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/college.12599/#post-101633
Do you mean boatbuilding trade schools or collegiate programs leading to a degree in Naval Architecture? While there is no national "standard"...
I'm not so sure on skiffs that it is the stern being too wide, but rather the bow down pitching moment caused by the rig. Even 40 years ago in...
If any, it is minor and obscure. Contemporary with SLINGSHOT in the late 1970's early 1980's there was a staggered mono-tack catamaran....
Well before that. Just think back to the lakes scows of the 1970's and the west coast USA pram racing in El Toro's or SF Bay Pelicans in the...
Unlikely, real requirements are very different. Old thread... Military recon powerboat concept...
LOL...do you understand how big a "bubble" we are talking about here for a "Shkval"? It 'flies' inside a fully submerged "bubble" about 20m long...
Hummm... since you reduced it to a function of D:Va then for a given geosim we should be able to expand the 2D graph line into a 3D volume with a...
When Maxsurf was introduced back in the day there were no remote tutorials, this lead to the two major issues I have seen. Surface Direction and...
No it isn't... Tûranor PlanetSolar is 10 knots, 120 kW total.