22' Planing Catamaran Design

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  1. Alik
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    Important is: the bow should not dive so the outboard engine is not getting aerated. This can case loss of control at following seas. This effect is pronounced on smaller cats, thus we need volume at bow.
    We did a lot of tests on 6 and 8m cats, also with outboard engines height. The outcome is: with narrow bows, engine should sit lower.

    Here one can see bottom shape of our 6m design
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    Are you thinking of the engine on the high side, when stern quartering ?
     
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    This can be avoided by steering. But in general, if engines are high, and bow volume is small, the boat tends to broach.
     
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    There's not much freedom of engine height, regardless, but cats that are not lightweight, still don't broach, there is just too much boat in the water aft (x2) for them to do that. The matter of weight is important, too light and they are a dynamically unstable horror show, especially if powered for speed, and worse still if the lightness is combined with "fat" hulls.
     
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    Hi Guys thanks for the really good insights, so I have carefully read the comments and watched the shark cat video which was really interesting.

    On the topic of full bows I tend to agree with Bruce Harris and you guys on the full bow being good for running with a following sea. But my hulls were still a little too full so have done some shaping just to reduce the volume just a little bit and turned the angle to add a bit of bow flare.

    I have been on a friends cat, 5.4m and it rode really nicely all except for running with a following sea. It felt as if there wasn't enough lift or buoyancy up front to keep the bow proud so it felt like it was digging into the back of the swells, although it showed no sign of broaching.

    I'm still quite surprised as the topic of LWL/BWL ratio doesn't pop up neither much on tunnel height, and further ratios between the chinebeam of a demihull to tunnel width ratio. Or maybe it doesn't come up much because its the designers secret to success.
     
  6. Alexander Peter Bromley
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    Interesting handling from the test model. These were the only with broaches the rest the model handled well. What do you guys think?



     
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    . cats can do this too.
     
  8. Alexander Peter Bromley
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    Hahahah yes that's actually just up the coast from where I live!
     
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    certainly a different way to go fishing, i bet they go through a few water pump impellers.
     
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    Alexander, check here: Aeromarine Research
     
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    These pool tests are useless, because You evidently pull the bow up.
     
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    Not quite the line of thrust, unless it has been lassoed by a UFO :eek:
     
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  15. Alexander Peter Bromley
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    To me I was hoping the videos would show some vague resemblance of how it will run, unfortunately line of thrust is definitely not ideal, I was hoping it could resemble the motors trimming the bow up, which is generally how planing cats like to run.

    Thanks Mr E, those dimensions from the storm cat help a million, lets hope it was a good riding boat!
    Cobra cat.jpg

    Something similar to this, a South African style cat proven to handle surf launching.
     
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