Commercial coastal fishing boat 50 foot, complete rudder failure resulting in grounding and hull damage. Not a hard failure analysis ! Flag...
Watch it to the end. Such Vitality. Titled "How to make French toast" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ut5g1
I was wondering if Admin could please explain the current awardable points calculation formula. And has points awarding power been recently...
I've had a lot of emails over the years for help with Reynolds number calculations and another recently, so I just created this little educational...
I and a few others were wondering what happened to Frosty ? Was he excommunicated or did he quit ?
Does anyone know of off oil bath housings for tapered spherical roller prop shaft thrust bearings or roller thrust bearings for smaller vessels...
Naval architect Joe Adams (81) has reportedly been murdered in the Philippines. Adams designed Helsal, the 1973 record-breaking Sydney-Hobart...
I have a 250 Amp single pahase Mig Welder which had a diode short circuit in the rectifier. The replacement rectifier was available but...
A friend at his first day of induction at a government facility was given a briefing on passwords. This cartoon was in handout material. They are...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Nrx3Mdzls The ship barely has steerage it's going so slowly. The yacht almost escaped with only a fright, but...
The safety issues related to boat design extend to sinks ;) au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/9960717/nz-woman-loses-hand-in-croatian-yacht A...
Perhaps we can move posts 111 onward into a new thread titled "Multihull Capsize" < thread split from...
Well Lloyds register has joined the fray. You can now have several of their rules for free in electronic format. Here's special service craft...
Would anybody have the lines or offsets or a CAD model of a Charles Wittholz 'Departure' hull and keel that they could email to me? It's for a...
Here's a link to the free download of Germanischer Lloyd (GL) rules . They can be hard to find for most people trying to navigate the site in...
Perhaps in portent of things to come we will see an increased awareness of the judicial system that designers and builders are culpable of...
Just looking at Google Earth and the camera has caught an interesting event in the port entrance in Alicante Spain. Looks like the outgoing...
Here's a link to an interesting tale of steel boat building (or rebuilding) in South Africa....
Bahamas Shame, big clean up bill too. Perhaps a bigger anchor next time ! No effort to save any of the gear onboard and high and dry. Times...
I'll answer this PM query here . "I have a new boat under construction and am considering monel keel bolts but seem to remember reading...