"Servo Yachts", a California company, the land of fruits and nuts. :rolleyes: No more need be said. I'd first thought it might be from some French...
Ah yes, the Mitty Ann, an excellent example of a genre of boats that Atkin excelled in. The wholesome inboard utility of displacement speed/hull...
Always easier to cut down rather than add-on that's for sure, but you built a good-looking hull. Pushed too fast the stern will squat which will...
The sheer isn't a big deal, should you wish, it wouldn't be a big job at this stage to simply spring a batten and cut down the sheer up forward a...
"Some" inefficiencies. :D Me thinks that "some" is being quite kind, but yeah, they did the best they could with what they had. ;)
Over 90 years in operation, can still earn her keep. [MEDIA]
A few years ago, we had a paddle excursion boat with hydraulic drive operating near where I live, when it came by the noise was deafening, the...
It won't matter, as soon as the boat starts to move the horizontal transom will produce a given width of turbulent/disturbed water which causes...
For economical/efficient low speed propulsion you need a hull that's quite slender for its length and a prismatic that's on the low side, (none of...
H.M. Screw Steamer Niger Towing the Paddle Steamer Basilisk, 1849 As much as I like a sternwheel, I'm certainly under no illusion that it in any...
Been used for many years, it's called a "Voith Schneider" system. Provides thrust in any selected direction.
Not quite, a prop has an airfoil shape, it produces a lift component, and the "warp" or twist in the blades can be tailored to the projected...
Sometime go to YouTube and type in "Steamboat Portland". I've been on her many times, and one of her captains a few years past who I was friends...
Here's a guy in Germany that built one of those Atkin sternwheel designs I previously mentioned, Atkin called it "Lady of the Lake, it's ~28'x9'....
I'm sure that most everybody on this forum understands the relationship between Hp and torque. Neither the commentator in the video or we on this...