traditional designs and traditional methods

Sounds like a great boat. I'd love to see pics when you're ready. Where are you building, and where sailing?

BTW, if you're back & forth to France, there's a Francophone engineering school that's been making waves in Quebec. Not enough prospective naval architects in France know about it.
http://www.etsmtl.ca/
http://www.mec.etsmtl.ca/club/omer/fr/default.htm

In case you have the opportunity to spread the word in France, or to hire a graduate of the school, I'd like to spread the word. I have reason to think there's exciting design education going on there.

 

The software does take the tediousness off designing.

Chandler: I've seen a couple of converted luggers in the Caribbean years ago. The bows where plumb and very high, but I don't think that much. Maybe they would float that high light.

 

Chandler, my father wouldn't let me use a slide rule until I'd learned to use trig and log tables, and interpolate. I used his old slide rule during high school, but switched to an HP41C my freshman year of college. I'm 44.

I was educated at home, so my father wasn't going to let me take any shortcuts until I was way too familiar with the hard way. All that must have built some understanding, because I found that the math was the easy part of the engineering curriculum.

By the way, I have two slide rules at my desk right now, but they're more as props for jokes than for work. That's mainly because as an economist, I do more adding than multiplying. MAybe I should bring in mom's old Addiator.

 

"By the way, I have two slide rules at my desk right now, but they're more as props for jokes than for work. That's mainly because as an economist, I do more adding than multiplying. MAybe I should bring in mom's old Addiator."

Might an ABBICUS work as well as a prop?

FAST FRED

 

Slide rulers are still well and alive. They are many specialty types that work very fast and quite accurately. For example, the circular ones to calculate a propeller size. I have another circular one for adjusting the set of sail draft when racing.

 

Nels
That's what we used, the tables in the back of the text, because I honestly cannot remember using a slide rule, I do remember having to learn how to use a slide rule.
Gonzo I use another specialized slide rule quite often for figuring cubic yards of concrete in tubes and forms.