"James" lifted the trapdoor, peered
around and wrote:

I hope your cutting of timber proves to be more accurate than your sense of
smell....

and I hope it doesn't eg

Meindert Sprang wrote in message
...
"Miljenko" wrote in message
...
Hello to ALL of you,

first, I am telecommunications engineer and if anyone asked me about
building some electronic device I always helped him. I gave him
schematic
diagram if I had one but did not made a device. That is for what I
asked
for !!!

Hello Miljenko,

I have a collection of links on my boatbuilding site:
http://www.customware.nl/boats/en/index.html

Option "interesting links". Maybe you can find something of your intrest
there.


HELLO FROM CROATIA - land of the most beautifull see and little ships!

Been twice to Croatia (Opatija), on my honeymoon and later in the season
again. Unfortunately I wasn't caught by the boatbuilding virus then. But
it
sure was beautiful!

Meindert
(also an electronics engineer that loves to build boats after a days work
behind a computer screen)


***
Hello,

be sure I will look at your site.
Opatija is tourist destination since Austro-Hungarian Monarchy so there is
no industry even small workships. But in West Istria, Kvarner, Mid and South
Dalmatia there are many shipyards (few large but many small like
www.piculjan.hr , www.plovila-tusek.com , www.seaway.hr/nerezine630.htm ...)
many are built last 4 years. Most of them produce modified traditional forms
in plastic.
By the way, on honeymoon there are many things to enjoy, not searching for
shipyards. C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!
I am electronics engineer, but my hoby is sea, fishing, diving and of course
boat building only for myself ( NOT FOR SALE). I have not money to buy boat
so I am building myself slow as my financial alows. But my grandmother have
nice house 30m from sea in Crikvenica so I am often down there.
Now I am 30 Y.O. married man with 2 year old daughter and boat must be this
size to handle not only me, my friend and equipement but now my family too.

Thank You for answering.
Miljenko.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:29:32 -0500, "Jacques Mertens"
wrote:

"William R. Watt" wrote in message
I thought all designers ripped off other people's designs.
That's what boat designers do.
Can anyone name anyone who has designed a boat with no research or
study of other people's boats?

I once walked in a major (and I mean major) designer's office while they
were working on the concept drawings of a new boat.
There were plans and pictures all over the place, they had graphs of data
about other boats and a list of desired features mostly referring to other
designs.
I would not trust a design that is not based on research and data compiled
from previous designs.///

At least one aircraft design handbook on my shelf lists dozens of
comparables for different light aircraft. Wing area? Tail moment?
Tail volume? Power to weight?

That's doesn't stop a designer placing the main wing aft - like
Vari-Viggen. But guess where that idea originated?
Not with the Viggen, for sure....

Brian W