Curious, is this an actual C&C Half Ton - i.e. with the tuning fork cockpit? Not a great arrangement for a cruiser and i know at least some of...
That is interference drag. A thin short chord at the root is one way of minimizing it. Vacanti advocates a lip near the leading edge root....
Yes. Recall the Mickey Mouse eared keels in the 80's IOR boats. Part of the reason for them was to get an elliptical load distribution, but you...
Any opinions on the Resin Research epoxies? I believe they are in Florida, so maybe PAR is familiar with it and it looks like Skyking1 has used...
IM is right. Shoot the Moon is one of Peterson's earlier pin-tail designs - much like the first Peterson Cadenza (shown below) and not really a...
Must be a joke. Tell me how one could build a 246 ft mega yacht for only $25M
I am a little (lot) rusty on my statics. In the case of a B&R type rig with reverse diagonals, how does one go about calculating shroud loads, or...
That is the second time someone has mentioned going with a B&R type rig, so there must be something to this. The boat in question has a double...
Thanks again Eric, I'm sure you are right about the preferences of mast builders mast builders. I was just wondering if there were structural...
Thanks for the response Eric. I guess the real intent of my question was: By my calculations carbon spreaders are considerably overbuilt with...
I was looking at the specs of carbon spreaders (Forte) and noticed the wall thickness for all sections was 0.12 in. Using the following...
Thanks for the input PAR. Not technically a B&R rig since there will be no reverse diagonals. Yes a lot of structural re-work I reckon. Some...
But suppose you don`t look fine. In the case of the Dash, it has: checkstays, running backs, and top mast running backs, which I feel is too...
I agree completely with what you guys are saying. However, the situation with the boat is that it is on the hard and will likely be there for at...
Actually, the boat has been on the hard since I bought it a couple of months ago, so I haven't had the opportunity of sailing it yet. No plan for...
The TM version has an I of 38 and a P of 40.5. AFAIK only one was built, and that was a custom build, with a Farr 30 carbon rig, bumped up about...
I should have qualified my core suggestion by saying it likely would only be useful for a one-off. For a production boat, probably not so useful,...
While I never like to discount new technology, one of the problems with printing metals (where you apparently melt metal powder) is that I suspect...
Okay, here are the details: Type: Dash 34 Designer: Laurie Davidson Year: 1981 Design Displ: 5900 lbs LWL: 30 ft B: 10 ft I: 35.5 ft, J: 11.5 ft,...
Like previous posters, I see problems with achieving the desired mechanical properties of strength and modulus. However, what the printing...
