one of the ongoing projects thats been bouncing around for a while in my head/notebook is a canoemaran or kayakamaran, my main question or point...
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i can't cad but i can assemble and cut wood, if you're looking to hire anyone in anything other than cad par time i'd love to commute from...
for every 1000 liters of air you could replace with helium, your boat would only be ~1.1 kg or about 2.4 pounds lighter. helium is 0.00018...
i'm having some difficulty following this, but are you working from plans you paid for or images you found online? many times online study plans...
looks like your boat needs a male name.
click on the fisheries logo and type boat design into the search, then click on the documents tab and you'll find a few more for trawlers, metal...
looks like youre making one of these: [img] use oars or a trolling motor at most, don't bother with a sail.
your internet-fu surpasses mine. :D
unless i missed it, the OP didn't say anything about sailing. those are also good reccomendations though
check out hannu vartiala's designs. simple, easy to build, work fine, completely free. http://koti.kapsi.fi/hvartial/
youre not gonna fit much sail area on a boat thats only 5 ft long without spending a lot of time capsized
sorry for the delay, as the previous few posters relayed, we used moderate bagging and multiple layers of carbon, in addition the outer two were...
i have built things using exactly that method in non-boating worlds, but dont know how well this practice transfers over to boat hulls. we used...
