I am curious how other folks building their own boats handle the accounting for the project. (Home builders, not commercial yards.) Do you record...
The problem: A hydraulic pump (for steering assist), engine mounted, is driven by a conventional V belt. After a cold start, this belt squeals...
After a couple of hours at the drawing board, I often find that I have half a dozen textbooks open in front of me, because I needed one or two...
After the last few threads on proas and small cats, I've been thinking about what seems to have become a pretty well-defined barrier between...
S/V Concordia sinks off Brazil The 57-metre tall ship S/V Concordia capsized and sank off the coast of Brazil last Wednesday. Reports have...
Greetings all, I have just spent half of yesterday and most of this morning beating the s*** out of two jam nuts in a steering linkage with every...
Hi everyone, A challenge here from the http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/option-one/metric-vs-imperial-poll-549-13.html#post289344 . I'm putting...
NOTE- this thread is the political counterpart to: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/propulsion/emission-controls-technical-thread-27515.html...
NOTE- this thread is for TECHNICAL discussion. Politics-like commentary on this issue should go to:...
I now have free time again, for the first time in eight months. Thus, it is project time once again. Some of you may recall my last project (...
This from the Toronto Star today. It looks like a few commodity speculators are chartering VLCCs for a few months, loading the tanks to the brim,...
In browsing through the brokerage listings in the back of the sailing magazines, I noticed something rather odd about the rigs found on cruising...
We had one of those "mystery boats" show up here in Kingston a few weeks ago. Thought I'd share, for the benefit of the community. She's about...
It seems when I'm not designing things for school or for work, I somehow end up designing things just because.... I've been thinking lately about...
Hey all, Just wondering if anyone else has experienced a little issue that's been cropping up here an awful lot during the last month or so....
In the interests of saving a whole lot of scraping..... I have a fibreglass mould that needs to be cleaned up. It was just pulled from the plug,...
http://volvooceanrace.org/news/article/2007/january/ontherecordjan07/index.aspx http://www.gizmag.com/go/6747/ So the VO 70 class is now going to...
Well, I've been avoiding work again.... and instead, skimming over some papers on Nigel Irens' tris. An interesting issue that came up is that of...
Word on the street has it that the French supermaxi cat, Orange II, set a new trans-Atlantic record of 4 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes 54 seconds when...
The situation: Project requires two female molds, each about 5m x 2m. Both are fairly flat. Parts to be built from prepreg carbon and kevlar,...