Referring to comment #61 Nawwww! Don't think it was meant to go supersonic. Just a PWC with some captured air-flow to ride on. Still, looks...
Nope, not mine, I stole it from: http://www.gizmag.com/go/6864/ Glad you like it. Looks feasible to me.
Eric W. S., The idea I had was not a way to go faster but just to use the power of the passing water, and the orientation of a heeling hull,...
How about this?
If I may, let me add a graphic to try to be more clear. The boat just shows WHERE these fin/foils might go, and the drawing tries to show HOW it...
Most of my question was directed at a sailing vessel which encounters a huge heeling force. I like the idea of having only one fin or foil in the...
Has anyone tried to create a set of fins on the hull of a sailboat.....where when heeled, let's say, 10-12 degrees, one fin would be out of the...
Oh, yea? Well let me see here...................................................
How about this? Or this?
Greetings, My buddy has moved his sailboat from Ontario, CANADA to Point Roberts Marina, USA, ...just across the border from Vancouver, BC....
Greetings, What are your opinions about ways to attach 2" thick oak boards to oak ribs on an old fishing vessel? The boards are about 8 to 12"...
Fishing Vessels Greetings, My buddy is currently restoring a 1947 Danish Fishing Vessel. He has taken all of the concrete ballast out of...