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- Category: Sailing
- Founded: Feb 10, 2001
- Language: English
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US One Meter
RC Sailing
The US One Meter yacht is fun to sail; it's lightweight, fast, and responsive to the controls. Due to its size and quick disassembly, it's easily transported to the pond.
The US One Meter is a development class boat. It is 39.37 inches (one meter) in overall length, with 600 square inches of measured sail area. The nonrestrictive nature of the class rules (which have not been changed since they were first approved in 1983) encourages new designs and experimentation. It is a relatively inexpensive class for the beginning skipper. The yacht can be self-designed or built from plans. It can be purchased as a kit, or as a complete yacht from one of several suppliers. To help new or experienced skippers build their own boats, several plans and a construction guide are available for downloading in the Files section of this Forum, or as hard copies from the class secretary.
Photo: How's this for a spiffy film deck? The photo is of Jim Linville's old Minuteman Mistress sailing in Needham, Massachusetts and proudly sporting a new film deck by the late Jack Villa.
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Re: Lead bulbs (4 poundish)
William: In one part of the section that Acree wrote he says, "The best performance is a trade-off between between chord length and thickness. Ideally, the
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 4:23 pm
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svaczovsky
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Re: Lead bulbs (4 poundish)
I saw that ratio of 2.0-2.5 to 1 ratio in a book by Marchaj 30 to 40 years ago. If the length is 10" the diameter would be 5". I have never understood this.
Posted - Sun May 27, 2012 8:40 pm
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william
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Re: Lead bulbs (4 poundish)
If you want the max chord a little closer to 60%, then use a 63-011 rather than the 63A-011. They have the same overall shape, just different max chord
Posted - Sat May 26, 2012 3:37 pm
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svaczovsky
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Re: Lead bulbs (4 poundish)
The 63A sounds like a winner to me. For what it's worth, using Hal Robinson's flow tank, we determined that a bulb with it's Max circumference at 60 percent of
Posted - Fri May 25, 2012 10:31 pm
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Jim
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Re: Lead bulbs (4 poundish)
John: When you use a 0006 section it is really 6% on either side of center or 12% overall. I ran that through Bulb Calc and got the following for a slightly
Posted - Fri May 25, 2012 10:02 pm
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