Recent content by peterbike

Explanation re thought/learning exercise : Eg. Regarding round bilge vs. hard chine etc. many say "you must go round bilge because of drag" But if we look at drag coefficients, we see that multichine is only slightly behind round, & that hard chine with the chines chamfered a bit - is only a...

Ah, apologies - I did not supply enough information. Additional to above : I am not thinking tri versus cat. Think, a pod cat where the "pod" is the same size as the 2 outer hulls, Or, a cat that got split down the middle & had another hull inserted central with a 15/1, b/l ratio & then...

Oldmulti or any of the NA's tuning in , a theoretical question regarding 2 x 38' multihulls : a) has 2 hulls, an open bridge deck & 12 - 1 beam/length hulls beam 22' b) has 3 hulls, 2 open decks & each of the 3 hulls is 15 - 1 beam 28'...

48V ?

Re the above, Hmm..... what can I say ? "Everyone to their own" & "as long as he is happy" (which he appears to be ?)

China is the best place for PET & epoxy resin. Maybe 50% cost They will ship to you. No links, but you will find.

Would I do it ? Yes I would, I agree with you & the second builder. But I would be throwing in some extra carbon to so that I could sleep at nite. Matting is expensive, but twill is cheap. :)

Well... it does sort of beg the question ; when will we see them on sailing cats/tri's ? :rolleyes:

Ah. but Tane, there are NO stone bench tops in an Arber.....

Duane, I don't think they will need engineering - as the twiggy & kraken are very similar. In fact if anything, the twiggy's were higher performance - so could be more than you need (good) The only thing is, how much weight loss/stiffness gain are you going to achieve via this upgrade ? Is it...

O/M - this "skaw" is very interesting & 'may' become the future of monohulls. ? 'Maybe' it will cross over to multi's too ? o_O

Wrekin, paulownia is fairly new - so no long track record. Gary Baigent an ex forum member built one of his trimarans out of it. The boat failed big time after not a lot of time. On investigation he found he had "black mush between 2 skins of epoxy fibreglass" You could troll back thru the...

Thanks for the explanation. I would be happy to assist, but from australia I would need faster than light travel - which we haven't covered on the forum yet ? maybe coming up soon ?? :confused:

That is a very interesting rig on QB. Questions for Skip. Is it your brainchild ? Do you think it would upscale ? to 35/40 ft ? thanks.