Fabulous boats. Good fun I'd say, though I think they should charge more! Gavin ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Chris Ostlind
wedgesail
Nov 3, 2010 1:52 pm
Yes, boys and girls, it's time to take a look at another "process oriented" methodology, as it should apply to the boats we design, build and use. To that end,...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 3, 2010 3:09 pm
 Could be either. Me, I'm voting "biz-speak" - but it could be "what?"  Don't get me wrong; biz-speak is quite often a valid and attractive statement...
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graeme
graeme19121984
Nov 8, 2010 1:09 pm
Yes, though if we're talking pivoting twin leeboards (PTLs?) then it's not so simple with Bolger's design examples. He expressed a love of "simplicity" and...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 8, 2010 5:58 pm
Bolger's idea of simplicity was simplicity for the builder first, for the crew second. If that required complexity and sophisitication on his end, that was...
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nutty_boats
Nov 9, 2010 9:55 pm
As part of learning about Google Sketch-Up, I decided to model a boat that I have been designing. What an eye-opener! In one way it was good to be able to sit...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 10, 2010 2:21 pm
... That's for the post. I was unaware of Sketch-Up. I'll have to give it a try....
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j_fouser
Nov 10, 2010 6:05 pm
Its fun , I like Freeships and you can export to sketch-up , and put the boat in water . I dont know how to fair lines in sketch-up , and I dont think there...
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nutty_boats
Nov 10, 2010 9:24 pm
Julian: Sketch-up allows for plug-ins, and among them are Bezier curves, which I used. A bunch found at: ...
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nutty_boats
Nov 10, 2010 10:46 pm
More are found at http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/plugins_sections.php . T. Lee....
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j_fouser
Nov 11, 2010 3:25 am
Thanks T, I will check that out . Sketch-up is very intuitive, and not to hard to pick up. J...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 11, 2010 4:23 pm
It seems to me that SketchUp has a lot of potential to be amusing for followers of boatdesign, so I suggest a little contest with a very little prize. To...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 12, 2010 2:13 pm
This is not especially design-related, but it may be interesting. 1. I've been playing around with an free Chartplotter application called OpenCPN. You can use...
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Hajo Smulders
hilomania
Nov 12, 2010 2:53 pm
Thank you; those are very cool. Especially opencpn since I don't do windows... Hajo -- "The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the ...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 12, 2010 4:49 pm
A comment about OpenCPN: I downloaded US charts for four states. As I added charts, program response slowed....
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Hajo Smulders
hilomania
Nov 12, 2010 5:11 pm
That seems like a bad design. (I'm a software developer) If I end up using it; I might just have to do something about it. One of the advantages of using open...
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ARK III
ark3007
Nov 13, 2010 10:33 am
Solaris-=- this is the SHIP from the City of Gold, I got off my old dvds from Ioffer.com . before they put it on DVD's. NOW in the markit as of now of day's...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 14, 2010 2:59 pm
As most of you will have noticed, I changed the photo on the home page to show an illustration of a GPS track superimposed on a Google Earth photo. I had...
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Chris Ostlind
wedgesail
Nov 14, 2010 11:41 pm
I'm not sure as to how many of you guys are interested in big time, blue water sailboat racing, but the biggest of them all is going on right now. The 2010...
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ANDREW AIREY
andyairey
Nov 17, 2010 4:07 pm
It probably depends whose example he was following.English practice was to use flat boards,although there was an example of Dutch profiled boards imported as a...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Nov 17, 2010 5:47 pm
I'm sure this is all so - the whole design you describe, simple as it is in concept, is another example of sophisticated thinking (in this case accumulated and...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 17, 2010 6:37 pm
... I'm not sure if Bolger ever made it clear, but if a leeboard thick enough to have a modern foil shape will have a lot of displacement, and therefore will...
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Douglas Anderson
djandersonza
Nov 19, 2010 1:49 pm
I am guessing sketch-up is some software? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Nov 19, 2010 1:50 pm
... Yep. http://sketchup.google.com/...
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graeme
graeme19121984
Dec 1, 2010 3:37 am
How about that? - A boat from a sack! Sailed, Bangladesh to France. Made from: Jute 40%, Glass 60% (except for the hull planks, or are they also composite with...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Dec 3, 2010 6:19 pm
No interest, I guess. I looked at sketch-up, didn't see how to enter a 3-D curve, and I've been too busy to pursue it....
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Dec 3, 2010 6:22 pm
An interesting project, and proof that superior seamanship can make almost anything work. Long time ago at a boat show, I got a lecture from a fiberglass canoe...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Dec 3, 2010 8:07 pm
Not sure I'd dismiss it so readily. While I'm sure that you're right about the critical nature of having good materials, boats have been built out of many...
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Peter
pvanderwaart
Dec 3, 2010 8:20 pm
... Perhaps I should explain just a tad. GRP or JRP (where J = jute) is a mix of fiber and resin. A simplified view of the concept is that when the material is...
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Lew Clayman
lew_clayman
Dec 3, 2010 9:21 pm
 Well, this is part of why they test. Me, I would guess that jute has all kinds of problems but perhaps there are ways to deal. Everything else has all...
