I really thought a spinning wheel would work better than it appears to. But what if the wheels spin passively, rather than being the way to drive...
Aw. The IHPVA rules ruin most of my ideas. You can't even take advantage of a big surf wave. If you can't break the Decavitator 100m short...
I thought a skeg works by creating friction, which pulls the stern back behind you. But if you have a high wind, it prevents sideslip of the aft...
Also, instead of riding the water on a hydrofoil, which has friction, could you ride the water on a fast rotating wheel?
I'm not competent to help you. But: Yes, the Oru uses Coroplast. But it imposes inefficient shapes. You can see the water splashing around the...
I talked yesterday to a kayaker (on a trip) who had a rudder. He said most rudders and some skegs are designed to be pushed up safely if you...
Maybe random superposition and interactions with bottom topography aren't the only way to generate unusually large waves. I was thinking of other...
Yes. But sometimes there is a cost to using a given floating water location too. I wonder if that applies to the area of interest. And sometimes...
You said you assumed a Raleigh distribution. That's a model. Sure, you can maybe empirically show that the model fits most of some body of...
This is drifting off topic. I was mostly just asking whether a boat designed not to weathercock or leecock was inherently inefficient, and how...
Oh, so it is from a model, not actual measurements. A model that is known to be flawed....
Ah, but I never got around to learning how to build boats, and right now I don't have space to set up a wood shop (the landlord took his away). So...
OMG those photographs are beautiful! So beautiful I refuse to believe they are fake. Surely anything that beautiful has to be real. :) I wonder...
Are you basing that on the AI model? The reason I am hesitant to believe AI models, is that they usually do not attempt to physically model the...
Alas, I'm not an engineer, let alone a naval architect, or whatever you need to be to make those calculations. But Physics of Paddling...
These are probably very dumb questions, and I'm not an engineer, but: 1. Why would you design the home that floats on water in a way similar to...
NOTE: I'm not an expert, and my explanations may be all wrong. A few decades ago I read an oceanographic book about waves in connection with work...
I asked Can you explain why? Or can you give me a reference (ideally free on the Internet) that does so? E.g., is there some reason that bow...
I think most kayak rudders can be manually retracted. So can all the adjustable skegs I have seen. The problem is that people (including me!)...
By arctic kayaks, I wasn't just referring to Inuit boats. I meant all close deck boats used by various circumpolar peoples. I did a very quick...
