Admittedly I know next to nothing about carbon aside from carbon = stronger, but it sounds like I may want to just rule that out for now. I...
Yes 10kpsi is substantially lower than I would hope to achieve with a laminate. G10 has a tensile strength of 40 kpsi. I'm struggling to find...
1 by CharlieDanger99 posted Aug 5, 2022 at 10:07 PM2 by CharlieDanger99 posted Aug 5, 2022 at 10:07 PM3 by CharlieDanger99 posted Aug 5, 2022 at...
Well even in a worst case scenario with a tensile strength of say 10 ksi, the shoe is at least a couple square inches in any given shear plane and...
I'm talking about replacing the entire bronze shoe with one made exclusively of composite (aside from fasteners), not glassing over the original....
Hello, I'm looking for some opinions on my thoughts for replacing the corroded rudder shoe from my 1960 Rhodes Swiftsure project boat. As you can...
Oh that's my bad. I meant to imply that I would add the vertical support perpendicular to the panel as you described, and THEN add the shelves to...
TANSL Thanks for your input, see my post above for my thoughts on stiffening the design pictured in post #8.
For clarification purposes, this is pretty much a perfect representation of what is going on. I have some limited design/FEA experience in...
This is very close yes! A couple changes, there is no core in the coachroof, it's solid laminate about 3/8ths thick below the mast. Also, there...
Tops, Yes, it forms what is essentially a longitudinal bulkhead between the 2 mains along the centerline. In the sailboatdata side profile...
Well my thought was that there are several examples of these boats still sailing with the original balsa/ply compression area intact. The original...
I made a post a few months ago about the design considerations of converting the deck-stepped rig to keel-stepped on my Swiftsure 33 restoration...
Lead Keel by CharlieDanger99 posted Jul 21, 2021 at 1:20 AMKeel Nut by CharlieDanger99 posted Jul 21, 2021 at 1:21 AMRudder Shoe by...