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hull windage on sailboat?
I'm playing with the design of a 15 ft solo cruising sailboat, well for
weekends and short vacations anyway. I'm trying for as much freeboard as practial to get interior headroom, plus a small cabin. I'd like to know how to calculate the extra sail area and lateral resistance to compensate for the extra freeboard. Is there a rule of thumb, easy formula, or some sort of approach? I know how to calculate sail area and lateral resistance when hull windage is ignored, ie the usual displacement, wetted surface, and sail area ratios. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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hull windage on sailboat?
William R. Watt ) writes:
I'm playing with the design of a 15 ft solo cruising sailboat, well for weekends and short vacations anyway. I'm trying for as much freeboard as practial to get interior headroom, plus a small cabin. I'd like to know how to calculate the extra sail area and lateral resistance to compensate for the extra freeboard. Is there a rule of thumb, easy formula, or some sort of approach? I know how to calculate sail area and lateral resistance when hull windage is ignored, ie the usual displacement, wetted surface, and sail area ratios. I found some of the information I needed at the Ottawa public library in a book called "Sailing Yacht Design" by Henry and Miller (1965) which has a graph of freeboard vs waterline beam for boats from 5 ft to 50 ft in length. It has a other useful graphs, all summarizing scatterplots of data from a number of boats. The graphs don't completely anser my questions but they do let me know if my design is 'way out of line with boats that were being sailed at the time. My design has mostly conventional ratios although near the limits of some. I also found another interesting book, "Sailing Craft" edited by Schoettle (1928) at the public library. The articles, written by various authours, covers many kinds of small boats, most with lines drawings. It has chapters on sneakboxes and sailing canoes. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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hull windage on sailboat?
If you want the definitive book on the subject check out this auction,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3558418287 "William R. Watt" wrote in message ... William R. Watt ) writes: I'm playing with the design of a 15 ft solo cruising sailboat, well for weekends and short vacations anyway. I'm trying for as much freeboard as practial to get interior headroom, plus a small cabin. I'd like to know how to calculate the extra sail area and lateral resistance to compensate for the extra freeboard. Is there a rule of thumb, easy formula, or some sort of approach? I know how to calculate sail area and lateral resistance when hull windage is ignored, ie the usual displacement, wetted surface, and sail area ratios. I found some of the information I needed at the Ottawa public library in a book called "Sailing Yacht Design" by Henry and Miller (1965) which has a graph of freeboard vs waterline beam for boats from 5 ft to 50 ft in length. It has a other useful graphs, all summarizing scatterplots of data from a number of boats. The graphs don't completely anser my questions but they do let me know if my design is 'way out of line with boats that were being sailed at the time. My design has mostly conventional ratios although near the limits of some. I also found another interesting book, "Sailing Craft" edited by Schoettle (1928) at the public library. The articles, written by various authours, covers many kinds of small boats, most with lines drawings. It has chapters on sneakboxes and sailing canoes. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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