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reg shape of boats..
Hi,
I and some of my friends had an opportunity to build rafts using sticks and 4 inflated car tyres and normal ropes. The requirement is for one person has to travel in the raft. Of the 3 groups, 2 groups made boats of square shapes, and our group made a triangle shaped boat. I want to know if a triangle shaped raft is more safer than square shaped from a aqua dynamics point of view, for 1 person and the reasons. If you know any links which talks about raft/boat building, please let me know Please excuse me, if I have posted in a wrong alias...boat building is also one of my hobbies, but never got an opportunity to build one.. - Murs. -- |
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reg shape of boats..
Square is more stable than triangle... Basic physics and geometry...
denny |
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reg shape of boats..
On 2006-06-17 03:15:04 -0400, " said:
Hi, I and some of my friends had an opportunity to build rafts using sticks and 4 inflated car tyres and normal ropes. The requirement is for one person has to travel in the raft. Of the 3 groups, 2 groups made boats of square shapes, and our group made a triangle shaped boat. I want to know if a triangle shaped raft is more safer than square shaped from a aqua dynamics point of view, for 1 person and the reasons. If you know any links which talks about raft/boat building, please let me know Please excuse me, if I have posted in a wrong alias...boat building is also one of my hobbies, but never got an opportunity to build one.. - Murs. If you lose one of the tires in the corners in a triangle, the shape will start to tilt far more noticeably than if you do so on a rectangle or square... look at ATVs. They used to be made in Trikes, but almost all are now QUADS...primarily for safety reasons...the trikes flipped far more easily. |
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