I just got done reading his latest post. Ex Lex (3?) now looks like a bateau from the French-Canadian lumber trade. It has the proportions and...
I read your piece with great interest. The VCG of the original SPRAY, in its final rig format (as a yawl) may not have been high as you think....
Been watching a lot of YouTube videos of proas. I have to admit there is a certain elegance to them. With no fixed mast and all stone-age...
Sure. The title is: OUTRIGGER CANOES OF BALI AND MADURA, INDONESIA by Adrian Horridge.
One idea I have been entertaining is an add-on hull segment which can be bolted onto the transom of a former planing powerboat. This segment would...
I hear you. I'm driving a '98 Chevy S10 extended cab with a 4.3 V6 engine. It has over 340k miles on it. The body is starting to fall apart. And...
Thank you Fredrosse. Most of the design books and articles I have read recommended that level of power if not more. That's where I got that...
That may be more about politics than actual efficiency. We have a problem with the wealthy dominating politics, here in the USA. I wouldn't be...
There is one major flaw I see in your reasoning: You assume the planing boat can make a very lengthy voyage nonstop. It can't. It must travel at a...
OK. I'm back. Let's suppose a 40 mile beach camping cruise with two different boats. The first, I'll call 'bounce'. It is a 16 ft planing...
OK. I'll tell you where I got this from. A displacement hull requires about 5 hp per ton to reach an S/L rate of 1.30. A lower S/L can be...
First, I never made such a claim or assumption. The fact is that planing boats use about three times as much fuel as non-planing ones, for the...
I think what he is building is just a plug for another foam-core composite boat. I didn't mean to suggest that I would go for such a high L/B...
First off, I don't mean this to be a debate about whether man-made, or man-excellerated, global warming is happening or not. For the purposes of...
