Working on that in Fusion 360! It'll be very simple overall geometry though. This is just a random illustrative image off the internet, but this...
Once I get an idea of the forces involved, I am hoping I can find standard dock or stage-truss modules with the necessary characteristics. After...
I spoke to the company, they sent a lot of photos (including right up to floating house type things) but mostly seemed to be all about flotation....
Use of HDPE in this application seems a fairly recent innovation, and I understand the more common steel / aluminum pontoon builds lean pretty...
The most common way to do it seems to be to buy the pipe with flanges welded onto it: Pontoons - NyDock Floating Docks & Pontoons PipeFusion in...
I am comfortable with buoyancy calculations etc, but looking for the "unknown (to me) unknowns" around structural integrity of the platform....
Hi all - this is related to my thread over in the Materials section but perhaps this is a better place for this part of it. Given the lack of...
Hi everyone. I'm new in terms of having an account here, but have ended up reading a lot of posts over the years at the end of a google search...
One of my kids wanted a boat. This is the cheapest, fastest design I could come up with. DO NOT ASSUME IT IS SAFE (it probably isn't). I built...
She spins like a top, with a single paddler you're better off sculling or using a coracle-style sculling draw. Lots of freeboard so I wouldn't...
Here we have about 240 lbs combined load in the now-christened Cicada, you can see the hull's twisting a bit as I'm close to the gunwale to...
The ends I slit, folded over on themselves, clamped and taped to the frame, and then bonded, avoiding all the math and fitting to the real...
