So I just came home from my boat building buddy's house, said it would be horrible, run too much air under the hull, and be terrible for...
Excuse me , Wind on the transom, whatever it may be called, wherever you are. Westerlies going to Europe, trades coming back etc etc.. I said...
I know there are some major downsides to that hull shape, but ever hullshape is a compromise of some sort. It would only be sailed downwind, any...
I will look into them..thats probably a good analogy..I know they were sloppy, I wonder if it was narrow beam that added to or caused the majority...
Lets forget that name houseboat...and just focus on a barge shaped hull with a reverse chine..and lets forget about freeboard and everything...
I also think the inverted v could..could be softer pounding than a flat bottom..because youll cause cavitation between the chines..even...
It wont act like a cat per sey...but it will have some good effect I think...I think...I mean its all a compromise..Im interested in your thoughts
Well sure it will , it will put more buoyancy at the chines, it will give the hull more directional stability...IE heading forward instead of...
sorry it would be a little more gentle
Ok, so I dig it...have some rocker. That makes sense, so me a little more gentle when doing the porpoising front to aft rocking..and just general...
The general idea is the easiest to build boat that could safely cross oceans. It started as a ICW cruiser idea...a barge hulled (Carolina skiff...
Why DCockey...I have towed barges all over the ocean and they havent sunk, do you have a particular reason to say this?
So here's the scoop. I was going to build a houseboat so myself and my dog could cruise the east coast. I looked at sailboats and power boats for...
