Ecodream, an optimized motor boat

Ecodream, an optimized motor boat


Ecodream, an optimized motor boat

To every boat builder and boat designer appears the dream of the ultimate boat sooner or later. It's all about optimization at all times. Although I have for many years been fascinated by the vision of the ultimate motor boat. The aim was to provide a boat with high efficiency and smooth operation over a wide speed range

Currently have a 1.2 meter model been tested in a first round to be compared with past experience. Later in the summer of 2012, a 5.5-meter prototype will be built to test how the different components can work together for optimal results.

The sketch is based on a boat with dimensions 7.5 x 2.0 meters and a maximum total weight around 1.3 tonnes. Of course, the technology can be used in all sizes of boats.

JS

 

Engineering is not about optimization but compromise.

 

Ecodream, an optimized motor boat with full scale test

 

there is nothing new under this sun or any other sun !!

I REMEMBER SEEING THIS AGES AGO !!
If its so good why aren't more boats using this system ??

 

Positive intention

What is your positive intention with your posting?

js

 

Long and thin... I like it....looks nice.

Also the size, 7.5 meters, hits the right spot.

 

On a 20 ft. tender design, not being an NA, I asked a lot of questions (dumb) about the proposed transition from displacement to planning in regards to the transom aft shape angle, water release lip, engine horse power and anti-ventilation plate position.

What I found interesting was the use of an adjustable jack plate to help address the many different loading and speed conditions.

Best regards,

Mark Cat

 

Probably just trying to balance the advertising BS.

You've been pushing this design concept for a fair while here, without a shred of independent hydrodynamic evidence that your invention works as you say it does. You even tried to sell me the idea some time ago.

 

I thougth that the PDF showed the benefits ? Was I naive to beleive that they were the actual test results, or at least some reliable modelling ?

 

So, there is nothing that can ever be improved ? That seems a big call.

 

Of course things can be improved. But the blanket is generally always too short, so you have to decide in which direction you will pull. You gain something on one side and you lose something else on the other side.

For example, you gain some speed and decrease the slamming forces by lengthening and narrowing the hull (keeping the same displacement), but you lose the space and comfort of a wider cabin, or increase the rolling motions (just to name a few). At the end you have to decide which characteristics are more important for you, which means - you have to compromise.
Cheers

 

It is nearly well named. It's wet and a dream.

 

No but ... hes got all those great pictures, and a 15 foot demo model .... dont say it isnt true !!!!

 

Maybe Mr Dashew has been taking it all in with a nice flat bit under his boats so they can surf at 20knts down waves

 

The concept of the interceptor ahead of the transom is interesting. I'd like to know what the "plots" of lift are based on.

I'm always suspicious of anyone claiming an "optimized" design without knowing what the design was optimized for, what metrics were used, and what the constraints were.

But if the blanket can be made larger the loses may be minimized. But the costs and effects of making the blanket larger need to be understood. Then soon after the blanket is made larger the amount of space that is desired to be covered expands.