I have heard scuttle butt that ceramic coatings (finishes) have been used on bottoms of sailboats to enhance (reduce) drag. I think there is an...
Hi everyone, AC75 should take off in an 8 kts wind. So basically, AC75 spend most of their time flying. What does the flow around the flying hull...
I have developed a spreadsheet application dedicated to the drag estimation and the speed prediction of rowboats, developed with OpenOffice Calc...
I'm a game-programmer-design student, and I both have a boat and love sailing. And as a kid I wanted to be a pirate, probably not in Somalia...
I am calculating the drag for a round hull - I know this form sucks, but it is only a transition state while the vessel gets up on foil. D = 1/2...
Dear all, I am trying to estimate the resistance added from a bulb on a sailing yacht in upright resistance. I have bare hull resistance...
Can you please suggest a tool (software or online tool) that can analyze a submarine hull shape and give the total drag at a specific velocity. A...
Hi I have designed a houseboat for inland waterways here in France. It is supported by three cylindrical pontoons an propelled by two, 10 kW,...
