And laminating a near vertical topsides towards the laminator will have no impact on quality…….look at your website, a small mold that rotates! I...
There’s more to it than that, how easy is to reach the centerline….a rotating mold makes that much easier……what’s the laminate schedule - than can...
But……built to class like Lloyds, ABS or Bureau Veritas….the plans are approved and then the build is inspected at different stages to make sure...
Trust……….or regular in person checks….or take all the money up front and don’t worry……. Iron clad contracts help but lots of designers have been...
Sorry, you may, but most people won’t…..they buy it for the name and the dealer support and the name…..
They buy it because it costs $400k………the same thing but cheaper won’t sell
I suggest you find some people who have experience with sailing a boat of this size with water ballast…….the only real way to define this is to...
????so where does the compression go………yes, the fittings and everything else can get smaller…..but compression is compression, the tension in the...
I guess the question I have to ask is - WHY? seems like a lot of work that will (in all likelihood) cost more than planned and reduce the value...
I would go higher deadrise……maybe 24deg
Don’t add foam, add lead…..bulbs work as adding endplate helps reduce drag a little….but the added stability is the big gain. Extra lead is...
I’d leave a minimum of about 250mm/10” all the way round and have no radii smaller than 150mm/6”
This is on a little 5.5m boat…….that transverse is doing basically nothing unless you go wave jumping…..and even then if it broke you probably...
I agree, but I’ve worked at builders where we had a moveable transom in the mold and it worked very easy and only minor rework…..we also had parts...
A small one, maybe 1/2”, much easier than seams
Pick the cut location (in the middle and the simplest shape) cut it, then install the two parts. The bridge between the parts with 2x1 wood...
Adding mold sections in the middle of the hull will lead to ‘seams’ that will print through into the finished hull, no matter how carefully you...
The reason the rules apply only on boats up to 20’ is that nearly all the accidents happened in boats under 20’……..so that’s how they wrote the...
Why not just use foam filled tubes, like a Safeboat
I would only talk with NA’s who have sailboat experience, a lot of Florida NA are powerboat designers (not that there’s anything wrong with that,...
