Hi Bobby, It sounds as though you are in a position that you can divide your hull surface into lots of small triangles and you know the x,y and z coordinates...
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Gavin Atkin
gavinatkin
Nov 1, 2003 3:07 pm
Corbin - I've just remembered about your Auray punt-derived boat. How did it go? Gav...
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pvanderwaart
Nov 1, 2003 3:22 pm
John, Thanks for the long post. You have some good ideas. Your notion of model the boat hull as triangular facets is interesting. It may complicate as many...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 1, 2003 7:47 pm
... You'll know what makes sense in your own application, of course. Most modelling systems I've seen divide the hull along traditional stations and chines,...
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R Coy
dbcoy
Nov 1, 2003 8:48 pm
OK I'm dumb. What's Wicca? R2 ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears ...
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mikE goodwiN
panmanii
Nov 1, 2003 9:04 pm
Natural asphalt and pitch are nearly the same thing. In the island of Trinidad , is a large "pitch lake", where natural asphalt is "mined" . They scoop out a...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 1, 2003 9:42 pm
... See message 23885 at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boatdesign/message/23885 Or search on Google, etc. -Lew ===== "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." ...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 1, 2003 9:45 pm
Whatever it is, I also read there that Sir Walter Raleigh re-pitched his ship with it. So something like the same stuff, if available in Egypt, makes perfect...
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David Lightfoot
dinghydave
Nov 1, 2003 9:49 pm
Don't worry, she's not really into that pagan thing. If she was, she would have pointed out that Jesus was born in March and the Christmas thing was actually...
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icarus
robert61960
Nov 2, 2003 2:34 am
Lew Claymen said ... Hi Lew, Part of what make sense to me is examining what it is that one (meaning I) wants to achieve and what is reasonable with (mine)...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 2, 2003 3:16 am
You're having fun, and it sounds useful. Go for it! ... ===== "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney ===== __________________________________ Do...
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icarus
robert61960
Nov 2, 2003 3:21 am
... Hull creates a hinged (winged?) quadrilateral between stations and strakes made up of two triangles. Hulls is remarkable in how smooth a transition it...
23908
dtvertrees
Nov 2, 2003 3:46 am
Hi I have been reading a lot of old plans showing inboard engines on small boats. the plans are mostly from 1940 to 1970. I have a wooden hull constructed from...
23909
byb6161
Nov 2, 2003 7:33 am
My favorite way is to use side wheels since the shaft is above the water it helps prevent that sinking feeling. one problem is that if you put the engine...
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vectorges@...
saab4991
Nov 2, 2003 12:34 pm
STUFFING BOXES IN A VARIETY OF SIZES ARE AVAILABLE FROM Hamilton marine. the EASIER WAY MIGHT BE TO FIND A DECREPIT OLD INBOARD AND SCAVENGE THE PARTS NEEDED....
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Bill Jaine
anacapaisland
Nov 2, 2003 12:52 pm
It's a ROC, religion of convenience, for 15 year old daughters so they can skip going to church, not have to tidy their bedrooms and wear black ... Oh, I...
23912
nutty_boats
Nov 2, 2003 3:52 pm
Sikaflex markets several glues. The original Sikaflex was the first polyurathane on the U.S. market, at least I first heard about it years before I heard of 3M...
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mikE goodwiN
panmanii
Nov 2, 2003 4:04 pm
I started using both of them in the late 70's, 3-M 5200 was available to me before Sikaflex by about a year, this was on the east coast. They test market stuff...
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Michael Casling
caslingm
Nov 2, 2003 4:09 pm
The motor will need to be installed on a slight angle, more angle if it has a flat bottom. You need an old style stuffing box, a prop shaft, a propellor and a...
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pvanderwaart
Nov 2, 2003 5:02 pm
The pre-WWII home builders were very creative, and had William Atkin cheering them on. They must have had some home-grown methods for stuffing boxes and the...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 2, 2003 7:26 pm
... <a whole buncha stuff> Bottom line, as I understand you, is that you subdivided the quadrilaterals which cross the waterline, then subdivide the...
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John
j_perryuk
Nov 2, 2003 8:50 pm
Bobby Another longish email! You propose to subdividing large quadrilaterals which cross the waterline into a number of smaller ones and then (presumably) ...
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pvanderwaart
Nov 2, 2003 10:51 pm
... It may matter quite a lot. At least one builder of the Bolger Chebacco has noted that although the designer has shown some convexity in the forward frames,...
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Gavin Atkin
gavinatkin
Nov 2, 2003 11:59 pm
http://blakeboatworks.com/bbpage3.htm This is new to me. He does a nice line in nostalgia, and I must say his Cajun band sounds suitably happy and sweaty! Gav...
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doug6949
Nov 3, 2003 12:58 am
Dennis; You may need some speed reduction unless your chosen prop is small. A large propeller turning slowly will give you considerably greater efficiency at...
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boatdesign@yahoogroup...
Nov 3, 2003 1:24 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the boatdesign group. File : /loft01.jpg ...
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icarus
robert61960
Nov 3, 2003 1:57 am
Hello everyone, Most excellent shop talk yet! I've been taking notes on the side effects pointed out by everyone here regarding computational lofting. At some...
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s_paskey
Nov 3, 2003 2:36 am
Thanks, Gav. I ran across this myself yesterday. Thought I'd picked the web clean, so it was nice to find something new. I very much like the look of his...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 3, 2003 2:49 am
... Two points, the quick one is: what's a coons patch?? The long one follows... When you have a quadrilateral formed of chines and stations, there is no...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 3, 2003 3:04 am
... I have a slightly different take - yes it can matter a great deal, but when designing for ply one is designing for developable shapes. One of the many ...
