All I did, was play around with the math from some formulas that I read to better understand them. while doing so, I noticed a odd, and surprising...
Right now my design is at 6' draft for my boat, but I've stretched her and increased her sails, which makes me want to increase her draft. But I...
I deal with prima donna's in my work all the time and so I'm used to working with them. In fact I work with so many of them that I coined a phrase...
I should have laid out my work in detail. Here is what I did: Dave Gerr's "Propeller Handbook", pages 10-12, presents a "Displacement Speed...
I'm reading Dave Gerr's Propeller Handbook and playing around with the formulas. When I combined the formula to estimate the maximum theoretical...
Thanks for the info Eric, much of what you said I've been reading about. It seems that for my dinky boat (at least when compared to the ships that...
Although very little electricity to recognize the movement needed, it would start to drain a battery a bit to actually keep the bed constantly...
82 Page Dictionary of Boat, Ship, Yacht, Nautical Terms / Names This is an 82 page Dictionary of Ship Hydrodynamics. It has lots of boat...
Thanks, that gives me something that I can grab onto and research. If you spend the time to tank test it seems that for a 15m boat, an 8-10%...
That's what I saw in the program. The NA did some computer models, but in the end, they had to do lots of tank tests in may different situations....
Thanks. When I watch this program, it was amazing how the wave of the bow shrank down several feet on this boat and it gave them a large increase...
I'm in the middle of moving this week and so I won't have access to my packed up scanner for awhile, but here is the link of my cutter plans that...
I was watching this TV program (on the science channel I think) where they had gained some serious increase in efficiency for an enormous tanker...
