"he also said that it is not a suitable hull form for powercats under about 10m" Steve-Did he elaborate on why he felt this way? Perhaps because...
Lessons learned Groper, hats off for your execution of a great project-very inspiring for all the rest of us with more ideas than ambition. Now...
My query was more about the finishing chemical used to help bond the resin to the fibers. I was under the impression that it degraded over time.
The material never saw water in the time I owned it and was wrapped in plastic and kept in an insulated garage. I'm thinking at this point I can...
Not sure of the brand- the label was in the end of the roll and went away with a prior project.
I bought a roll of triaxial knitted glass off of a craigslist ad a couple years ago. I'm wondering about the quality of laminates I lay up from...
Dry sump on that one... Same for the B&W's.
From Wikipedia (for the RTA96); torque 7,603,850 newton metres (5,608,310 lbf·ft) @ 102 rpm
We had another F40 in Australia "Simply the Best" it was Jutson design I think it still exists and is now based in Seattle and called "Dragonfly"....
That's not the half of it. Large, direct-reversible slow-speeds have an effective speed range of about 40 RPM. There's also a crtical speed range...
Thanks for the reply. I was mostly interested in what size outboard/propeller would get my boat to the speed I wanted. I can do the math from the...
I'm wondering if there's any published information available on the torque output for outboard motors, specifically in the 15-30 horsepower range....
What a cycling pump may mean... I seem to recall a discussion by Andre (forgot the surname, but goes by GRPguru) who said that he would pull a...
