What are the measurement units of wind heeling moment in metric units, as depicted by TANSL in the diagram above. What is the conversion to...
Heeling moment - units What are the units for heeling moment (depicted by Tansl in the diagram) in metric measurement units? How can I convert...
The recent fatality during an offshore (California) race owing to loss of rudder raises the question of loads on the rudder. My boat has a NACA...
Rudder design parameters The thread refers to Dave Gerr's articles in Professional Boat Builder. But the online archive does not go back as far...
Forgot to mention in my last note that the McGeary calculation does not say anything about the effect of heel angle on the entire rudder mechanism...
Thanks. I did not see that '2' actually meant '^2'. I also did not mention that McGeary accounted for displacement of the rudder by 35 degrees...
Breaking load on rudder I am interested in scenarios that might break a sailboat rudder, since this is known to happen. I would like to...
Re Josep's suggestion, the link takes me to a Spanish language site....
Heeling arm curve Use Excel and solve wind heeling moment for angles of heel, beginning at zero degrees, and up to about 40 degrees. Then use...
From comments in this forum it seems that cosine squared of the heel angle is a way to account for a reduction of both the sail area and the...
I am interested in calculating the force on a spade rudder taking into account its angle of deflection and heel angle of sailboat, knowing boat...
'Rail meat' Eric, My ORR certificate shows Arm and RM for every 2 degrees of heel. Is RM what you meant by heeling moment? For example 10...
Metacentric height resolved This is in response to Eric's post (which I don't see yet on this forum). Metacentric height: 4.75 ft. Got the...
