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Surface piercing propellers are designed to ventilate, therefore they don't cavitate.

Something like this?

Two conventional cross beams would do the same. It would be smaller, lighter, less complicated and cheaper.

If it is cosmetic, use a polyester filler and match the paint.

TACO products are of good quality and they have a very large selection.

If you don't have a lot of money, a used boat is a better idea. You can't choose a power source until there is a hull to go with it...

I don't know if you have driven a modern truck, but the throttle response is better with turbos than the normally aspirated engines of...

Learning pen and paper navigation is important, not because of tradition, but because of what it teaches you NOT to do. And it makes...

Because that is his target displacement, not the hull weight. They are totally different.

You must be as old as me if you used celestial. I used satnav in ships. The antenna whip was 30 feet tall and the ground whips 15 feet...

Are you adding a centerboard or leeboards? That will determine the location of the mast/sails.

Are you asking for references to hydrodynamic and dynamics texts, or a set of plans to build it?

Hello Strangers! A few years ago I produced some wave patterns for the 2 vol. book: "Hydrodynamics of High-Performance Marine Vessels"...

The problem is that when the ratio of the scale is large, there are some things that don't change and affect the results significantly...

Instead of lowering the track you can raise the bar. There are several ways of doing that. The simplest is a bar with curves.