Efficiency: Hull interference vs length on catamarans

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  1. Ad Hoc
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    Yes, here:

    upload_2021-6-4_11-24-20.png

    Then you're going to say...er??..that is not 30 foot.
    Correct...it is 45m.

    But the NUMBERS of the hull are exactly the same.
    L/D ratio = 7.5
    Fn = 0.9

    So it matters little what the actual size of hull/boat is...it is all about the numbers of the hull in terms of its hydrodynamics.
     

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  2. Mr Efficiency
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    Fallguy's skoota cat will do over 15 knots
     
  3. dustman
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    Oops, I should define the 20 to 1 as length to beam of the individual hulls.
     
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    If this question was for me, it will be a power cat, with no accommodations in the hulls.
     
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    No, I was querying fallguy. I assume he was talking a sailboat
     
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    Right, but not considered a displacement cat.

    So, definitions....
     
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    What does he call it ? Semi-displacement ?
     
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    Frankly, I'm confused.

    Sailing cat or power cat?

    Displacement or semi-planing?

    20:1 l/b?

    calling it a nite
     
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    Yeah, or semi-planing...
     
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    If you go to extremes on the l/b, at some point; things go haywire. You lose displacement for one. That pax ferry doesn't have that problem, but it ain't 20:1 that I am aware, or at 45M, her hulls would be only 2M or so. I'd love to see that engine room if so.

    For a 30' cruiser to operate at 20:1, wife is gonna get tired of husband telling her to only pack the bikini.

    At some point, pushing the l/b past a certain point must have/has diminishing returns.

    Anyhow, I need to rest.
     
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    certainly is getting to the extreme end of matters for a smallish boat offshore, on a river a different matter
     
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    If I'm not mistaken some of the large racing catamarans are in the 20:1 range and sail to extreme.
    Isn't it relative to other factors, like weight distribution, reserve buoyancy, etc?
     
  13. Ad Hoc
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    The pax ferry is 18:1, so, almost the same.
    As I noted, it is about the numbers in terms of scale. It is why model testing works...using geosims...exact copies of the hull at different scales all at the same length beam displacement and speed - scaled to suit of course.
    Hence whether the cat is 3 feet 30feet or 45m matters little ..if the scaled numbers of each hull are the same...it is the same hull in every respect.

    This:-

    upload_2021-6-4_13-21-37.png
     
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    So presumably what Woods calls semi-displacement is what ad hoc describes as "ventilated transom" with flat flow aft? ("My Skootas use semi displacement, non-planing, asymmetric hulls.")
     
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    For starters, sailboats don't go into the waves typically, you could easily find with slender hulls and the wave encounter frequency, and rounded hulls and the the modest boat length, your experience may be less than agreeable. More so if the ends of the boat are "kinda" symmetrical, which is why the transom might be desirable
     
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