if you have $1,000 you can buy a canoe hull design program which will give
you the optimum hull under your constraints, ie least resistance. there
used to be a spreadsheet type canoe hull analysis on John Winter's
website which may give you an advantage over your competition. try a
Google search on his name.

you can download a free DOS hull program from www.bluepeterdesign.com
which will give you waterline length, wetted surface, draft and some other
useful numbers if you give it a table of offsets for your hull. it does
not calculate hull resistance. count on spending half a day learning how
to use the program.

"Pablo" ) writes:
Hi,

I'm looking for books, articles or websites that refer to canoe design.
I'm a part of a group of students that will built a concrete canoe. More
precisely I would like to know if there is a formula that describes the
canoe theorical velocity given a canoe design (shape and rugosity of the
canoe) I have found a formula on a website which describe the theorical
velocity (W. Froude) of the canoe; V=2.26(L)^0.5 where V is the theorical
velocity (ft/s) and L (feets) the length of the canoe, but would like to
know in which type of books (fluide mechanics or hydraulics(names of the
books-chapters)) I would find the formula mentionned above and other
formulas that would help me understand what I need to consider when
designing a canoe. I have search in mechanical fluids and hydraulics but
have not been able to find such a formula, so I was wondering if I was
looking in the rigth type of books? If you can be of any help, pointing me
in the right direction I will really appreciate it. Thanks for your time and
help.

Pablo (remove213)




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