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Urgent ! Can anyone understand these safety data ?
DSK wrote:
Gary wrote: Okay, my turn again. I just googled you and see you may be a Nav Arch. I've met Mr. Gatehouse and he is indeed a Naval Architect and a good one. So why don't you calculate the AVS? Because (as he's been trying to tell you) it requires more data. I am quite confident (and I am not a Nav Arch) that the boat will have a better stability curve than is represented by the one posted. Based on what? Your gut feeling? No, based on the claims of Tayana of 0 degrees AVS (LOPS). Also based on the high freeboard and massive pilothouse. If it doesn't, and it has an AVS of 110, I wouldn't touch it for anything but coastal wandering. Now here I agree. An LPOS (or AVS or whatever the TLA de jour is) of 110 is far too low for any kind of rough weather sailing even near coasts. Going back a little bit You also earlier said : "- the ballast/displacement ratio is overly low, meaning a tender boat with not enough stability " A Nav Arch would know that initial stability is more than lots of ballast. Right, in fact the B/D ratio has little effect on *initial* stability. But notice that in the original sentence, the word "stability" was used, not the phrase "initial stability". In fact he used the term tender which is normally associated with initial stability. He said the boat would be tender (tippy or lack initial stability) A boat can have very high initial stability and great sail carrying power, but a very low LPOS (think scows or catamarans). A very different type of boat can have low initial stability and lots of ballast for lots of *reserve* stability... ie steeply increasing righting moment at higher angles of heel. A lot of old fashioned narrow heavy boats are said to "heel only so far, and then stiffen up like a rock." A boat like this can sail well at higher angles of heel if the hull shape is fair & the rig/rudder are balanced well. It can also have a very high LPOS yet be very unsearthy.... think of the Twelve Meters. No-one ever claimed that LOPS is the only factor determining seaworthiness. ... A raft has no ballast and is not tender. Wouldn't you say that you are jumping to conclusions by not taking into account hull form and the location of the ballast? Umm, no... from the discussion so far, I'd say that you are the one doing exactly that. I am simply trying to understand how the inclining experiment can come up with an AVS (LOPS) of 110 on a boat that claims a much greater AVS. In the above statement, I was pointing out to Mr. Gatehouse that his estimate of the 460 being "tender" based on the LOPS and ballast ratio was not necessarily correct. But he should know, he sails a cat. (No ballast) In other articles on the net, they also talk of the boat as "stiff" and "stands up to her sails well". That can easily be a function of her SA/D ratio as much as hull form & ballast. Fresh Breezes- Doug King |
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