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Default Submarines, Car Engines, and Displacement

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:24:30 -0500, Gary Warner wrote:


Anyone have a good way to find the total surface

area of my boat hull while it's in the water? It's

a 22' boat, not very deep V, "square" transom. I

did some estimating, but wonder if there are any

creative ways to get more accurate.


Total area of the boat hull, or just what's in the water i.e. waterplane
area? You could use the pounds per inch immersion formula.

http://dan.pfeiffer.net/boat/ratios.htm#lbsin