Sunday, August 8, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: hull design

 

Good hints Ed!
But: use a design stolen from a sailing dingy, but make L/B of about 8 by streting the length. This is because typical sailing dinghy hulls only work if lightweigt. Unfortunately heavy batteries would build back a severe planing hump in case of a typical dinghy hull with a batteries bank.

redu

On 08/09/2010 06:07 AM, Ed Bachmann edbz wrote:

If I were building a boat designed for electric,
-  For monohull - use a design stolen from a fairly wide sailing dingy with a shape designed to eliminate the "hump" transition from displacement to planing speed.
-  For twin hulls, long narrow catamaran hulls.
-  For tri-hulls, a wave piercing style - (one of John Holtrop's maybe).

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