Wilma Ham
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Boat Bits - Boat Design, Boat Building, Cruising, etc
http://boatbits.blogspot.com/
A sailing blog with random thoughts and rants on boat design, boat building, liveaboard cruising, electric motors, rigging, self steering gears, rig types, watermakers, fishing, various equipment, books, and other boat bits...
- Added on: Jul 23rd, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: ParadiseConnections.com
- Listed in: Sailing Crafts Technology
- Tags: Fishing Cruising diving spearfishing boat building boat design
Recent Posts
A great idea... Ultrasonic Antifouling
Back when we built Loose Moose 2, our yearly expedition to the London Boat Show turned into some kind of mega shop. Let me tell you it is a very dangerous thing to go to a boat show while you are building a boat! So many neat things, so many good ide...
On making beds and sleeping on them... or the smaller really is better two step
Recently I was party to a conversation where a newbie was asking about a couple of boats in the 34-36 foot range (one of them being the CAL 34) and listening to the amount of advice that featured go bigger... Well, to be truthful, it got my hackles u...
A yacht designer of note... Michael Schacht
For some time one of my favorite blogs of the nautical bent has been the Proafile... The purveyor, Michael Schacht of said blog has a keen eye for a good design as well as sharing my like of balanced lug wonderfulness... What's not to like?Michael is...
Sailing towards and SPOT!
A good friend has been sailing down to the Caribbean from Montauk and this morning I looked at my email and SPOT had sent me another update on his whereabouts... He'd made landfall and is anchored in Sint Maarten!Awesome!Of course, he had planned to ...
T-Day... The sailboat edition
Over the years we have done the T-Day shopping thing in a lot of diverse places but the time that stands out was in France. Luckily in France they do not have the hormonal monstrosities we think of as "turkey" in the US of A but still with our tiny o...
"T" day minus 1... and counting
Easily the best source of weather info I get is that from Jeff Masters over at Weather Underground and the Wunder Blog... Something I'd really like to say "Thanks" for!Jeff''s post today though is some kind of special and should be read by everybody....
REDUCING DRIFT WHEN UNDER SAIL
Fluid dynamics says drag created by vortices from flow across edges is greater when the edges are sharper. Also interrupting flow with barriers creates a force that will combine with edge drag. So...
Can drift be reduced by having chines augmented by ridges at the chine?
If the answer is 'Yes', then shallow draft boats could be designed to be better at resisting drift under sail than deep keel boats.
Please discuss.
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