My newly designed catamaran plan

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  1. metin_mehel
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  2. messabout
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    Technically speaking it as Proa not a catamaran.

    I expect that you will want to move the helmsmans station forward to trim the boat to advantage and re-calculate the strength of the beams that link the two hulls.
     
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    You have ways to go to compete with most of these tacking proa's at this price for plans.
     
  4. metin_mehel
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    My plan is around 100$ how about those you shared?
     
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    What is the advantage I did not understand clearly. Could you explain a bit more?
     
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    The beams are made from Aluminium tube. They are connected by 2 bolts at each ends.
     
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    What are the means of propulsion?
     
  8. metin_mehel
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    Paddle, motor and gaff rig but I did not included the sail plan yet
     
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    That appears to be relatively small boat. It will be weight sensitive. The Center of bouyancy is well forward of the helmsman. The tail will drag. Ama appears to have flat bottom. That configuration has the advantage of simplicity but it will have excessive wetted surface and higher form drag.
     
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    Correct... I supposed that the bags of the passenger will be put forward. And it would balance. This boat was designed for long distance trip near the costs.
     
  11. gonzo
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    Catamarans are simple because of the symmetry of the hulls. Proas require building two completely different hulls, which complicates things with no real advantage. The small hull will have a lower hull speed than the large one and more resistance at speed.
     
  12. metin_mehel
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    I did not understand why small hull results in higher resistance? Crossectional area that receives the fluid is lower. So the resistance should be lower.
    Did you mean the drag of the smaller hull creates the bending moment and it needs to be compensated by the rudder ?
     
  13. Rastapop
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    It won't. Wetted surface area is less, and wavemaking will be less.

    But of course less buoyancy in the small hull means higher drag on the larger hull.
     
  14. metin_mehel
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    outrigger has smaller wetted surface that means skin drag is lower. cross sectional area perpendicular the moving direction is smaller too means bluff body drag is lower (area^2)
    wave making is close to each other because the LOA of both are so close to each other.
     

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    I'm not sure what Gonzo means by this: "The small hull will have a lower hull speed than the large one and more resistance at speed". But I think there is no scientific basis to say that.
    Since the two hulls are rigidly connected, it is not possible that one has less speed than the other.
    The resistance has several components, friction, formation of waves, appendices. Which one is higher in the smaller hull?
     
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