See Sponberg post #34 above Eric's link to the Woodenboatstore still shows all Proboatbuilder issues back to #1. Go to menu items digital...
Half widths best guesses As stated above, all will be revealed when you loft the plans
You wear me out just looking at all that stuff you moved. Do my eyes deceive me, is that a picture of it floating? Thanks for the update, good...
Bob Perry is on record as saying that the slab sided bow is faster (more easily driven) because it takes less energy to slide through a wave than...
Great resource-d/l a few already. Andy Cunningham's review of twin keel design progress was most welcome.
OK, I'll give it a go. Having studied thousands of boat plans in the last 50-odd years, and having built and worked on more than a few, I am...
I was fortunate enough to have been born and raised on the Florida west coast barely in time to have met Clarkie Mills. John Hanna lived about a...
I had a boat similar in concept years ago 18' loa, 6' beam double ended, flush deck. Flush hatch in center over 5hp Kermath. (I said years ago!)...
Here's what I have on file: from an old project, don't remember the source, but all sources I found stress the need for a tall narrow locker to...
37' Jenneau lost ballast keel 2002....
Doug, that's not the picture, it's this one.. Seems clearly an I or H section. Doug Shickler commented that such a section was not ideal, but...
Just a thought about design of Rambler's keel fin. It is, according to the photos, an I-beam with the web transverse and the fore and aft ends...
This idea is being proposed by Chris White for his new Atlantic 47 cat. If the A47 fin is even remotely similar to the one on the A48, this will...
On the pepper in bottom paint issue- I used to work in a boatyard in South Florida. Several owners and captains specified cayenne pepper in their...
Skene's Elements of Yacht Design edited by Francis Kinney when he was with Sparkman & Stevens is also a classic, lots of formulas, lots of wood...
