I'm over in Thailand on holiday, and to look thru a few composite boatbuilding operations. The thought has occurred to me after spending a...
Common Sailing Terms Amidships - condition of being surrounded by boats. Anchor - a device designed to bring up mud samples from the bottom...
Jet Pump Inducer From another forum I ran across this posting that I thought might be interesting to this thread discussion.
I've not heard this 'mirror trick' brought up in quite a while, but I learned of it long ago. It is surprising how a design can look so different...
...courtesy Scuttlebutt 800 MILE DAYS (Editor James Boyd takes a sail on board Franck Cammas' incredible new a 105ft state of the art...
Boating, Fishing, Siesta The following story was found posted at the Club Cruceros in La Paz, Mexico: The American businessman was at the...
How to Sell (fishing gear) A young fellow from Oklahoma moves to California and goes to a big 'everything under one roof' department store...
Turbine Powered RIB Maybe these guys would want to experiment with this concept as well, http://www.nyethermodynamics.com/
Sloop Rig verses Square Rig How about a match race between two very different superyachts, one with a sloop rig, and the other with a 'modern'...
VERY COOL !!
Trip to Alaska Interesting that you should post this at this time. I have a very good friend who just days ago returned from Seattle where he...
Multiple Links So where is your website?? I had a hard time finding it with all of the other "Maltese Falcon" material on the web. I've googled...
Design Issues Reply Thanks for your criticism Daiwa. I must always remain open to outside suggestions. Please be aware that this is not a final...
Designing a Hi-Thrust 10 HP Jet online Just ran across this on-line design process http://www.marinejet.com/view/53 quoted.... Over the...
Pliant Duct Material BTW, Carl I’m still looking for more discussion on that ‘pliant material’ you’ve mentioned on several occasions Were...
Rim-Drive Impellers It certainly appears as though the rim-driven propulsor concept has a lot of potential as a component in a jet pump drive...
Sorry for posting this. I just had not read over any material on it and excepted it at face value...my mistake. On another forum SeaSpark wrote...
How about this as an alternative fuel source? from a news source.... Two particularly intriguing exhibits were the H2O 2000 gas generator...
Maltese Falcon, Sail Aerodynamics On another forum I had posted some discussions of sailing aerodynamics, and this in particular about Maltese...
M-Hull Technology I made mention of that vessel awhile back at: http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/15473-post37.html and I wasn't too...