Is the floor on the trailing edge that keel stronger than a half by 4 inch steel flatbar on edge, or a welded in steel tank?
Some prefer evidence and actual experience, like 30 years of trouble free cruising and surviving extreme conditions and torture tests, as evidence...
Pete . How many years did it take you to get to this stage? Looks like a week or two for an origami boat
Haidan had enough ready built, free stainless tanks , he didn't need keel tanks.
What you need Troy, is a comparison. Now tape a doubloon to something flatter , like a beamy flush deck, like a sheet of styrofoam, and throw...
What is being suggested here is that the Romans were wrong to make their bridges in the shape of arcs,and they would have been just as strong if...
Haidan did crash his boat into a rock. No serious damage. No dents behind the keels. One with much lighter webs across the front (3/16th) than...
There is very little chance of the leading edges tearing loose, all the impact is at the trailing edges. In any impacts I've seen, including hull...
The backs of those keels have a 1/2 inch by 4 inch ( 12mm by 100mm) on edge, inside, from centerline to chine , supporting the trailing edges....
.Haidans is a twin keeler .He's working in the big city, Winstons 36 is a single keeler, built to the original design, except for the wheelhouse....
Using a cut sheer, instead of the factory edge, which gives an extra 5 1/2 inches of freeboard, drastically improving AVS number. Including the...
The builder of MOM, Evan Shaler, was told to build a tank on the centerline, with extra reinforcing connecting it to the aft end of the keels, as...
Tad's post 141 gives the BS 36 an AVS over 160 degrees, after the mistakes in his previous calculations were pointed out to him. It would be...
When you sail a boat hard in 25 knots of wind, and her side decks are dry, yet your calculations say they are under water, which do you believe?...
Dove had zero transverse framing and 1/8th plate. If she had transverse framing, she would have been badly dented between the frames. She has no...
