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    Forward mounted rudders????

    Rudders on the back of each sponson would be too close longitudinally to the center of lateral resistance to generate effective steering force....
    Post by: Mild Bill, Feb 16, 2018 in forum: Boat Design
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    Planing boat and Bottom surface loadings

    How can area divided by displacement be dimensionless?
    Post by: Mild Bill, May 23, 2012 in forum: Boat Design
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    Swept forward keel

    I haven't seen Larsson's book yet, but I noticed that the fin keel on the Pluto800 has about 19 degrees forward sweep. According to Fig. 11 at the...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Jan 16, 2012 in forum: Hydrodynamics and Aerodynamics
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    planing hull

    The offer is quite tantalizing - viel dank! - but whatever lessons my posts contained are free.
    Post by: Mild Bill, Dec 16, 2011 in forum: Boat Design
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    planing hull

    Just having some fun, Bert. There were actually a lot of errors in your posts #18 and #24 (e.g. "funy" instead of "funny" - why didn't your...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Dec 16, 2011 in forum: Boat Design
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    planing hull

    Microsoft may not recognize recongise, but at least on my machine running under Microsoft Windows I can type in planing and the system doesn't...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Dec 15, 2011 in forum: Boat Design
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    I'm not understanding this Skin-foam-Skin roto process

    Let me take a guess. Even though the polyethylene resin is high density and high viscosity, when it's heated up to 500 deg to promote the curing...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Oct 1, 2011 in forum: Boat Design
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    input and help needed with this design

    Wayne - Just a bit of info at this point since your speculations are heading in a different direction: William and John Atkin stretched...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Aug 12, 2011 in forum: Boat Design
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    hull design

    For starters: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/hickman-sea-sled-inverted-vee-2880.html...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Jul 14, 2010 in forum: Boat Design
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    Flying boats

    Water vapor condensing into water droplets in the low pressure areas at the cores of the vortices generated by the "arrowhead" at the nose, the...
    Post by: Mild Bill, May 28, 2010 in forum: Boat Design
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    Flying boats

    The SR-71 Blackbird. One Two Three
    Post by: Mild Bill, May 28, 2010 in forum: Boat Design
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    Flying boats

    Would that happen to be the Latécoère 631? Un Deux Trois The French certainly do have an eye for elegant design.
    Post by: Mild Bill, May 27, 2010 in forum: Boat Design
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    Day 5 Tunnel Hull

    From the internet archives: 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000306151036/www.hydrofoilflatsboats.com/products.htm...
    Post by: Mild Bill, Apr 15, 2010 in forum: Boat Design
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    Brainstorming about yacht design

    The upper "fuselage" and canopy contours on that first design look a lot like a Lockheed P-80....
    Post by: Mild Bill, Apr 13, 2010 in forum: Boat Design
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    About that foam?

    Styrofoam melts under polyester resin, not epoxy.
    Post by: Mild Bill, Mar 29, 2010 in forum: Boat Design