[Public-List] Great literature....

[Gordon Laco]

I think a Rainbow would be great... If you don't want to use the rig you
could do away with the ballast keel and most of the deadwood leaving a long
skeg ending in the prop and a motorboat style of rudder.

6-8 people plus 300lbs of batteries?  Hmmm I think a Rainbow is small for
that.

The Rainbow class yacht I know is about 20'; like a miniature Dragon...

Gord #426 Surprise


On 29/10/10 4:03 PM, "Bill Spires" <spiresac at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'll check out that hull.  The batteries will only weigh about 300 lbs. so the
> 
load is not that great and I won't need the righting moment of a keel.  I
> would 
like some hull speed and I want to be able to carry about 6-8 people.
> I am 
thinking about a Rainbow hull that is sitting here.  I have never sailed
> it but 
I thought some of the Chesapeake sailors might be more familiar with
> it. 



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Hi Bill - 

I reckon
> something like a Whitehall skiff would be good.  I guess your
perameters would
> be a) easily driven  b) good load carrying so the weight of
batteries wouldn't
> kill perameter a.  I think a canoe hull is not so good
with regard to load
> carrying through heavy loading....

G






On 29/10/10 3:49 PM, "Bill Spires"
> <spiresac at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have been looking for a great hull shape for
> an electric boat build.  I
> think 
the steam powered canoes might be starting
> point and as a long time
> sailor I am 
looking at some easily driven sailboat
> hulls.  Anyone have any
> thoughts on the 
best hull shape for an electric
>
> boat?



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Hello friends - 

I am
>
> re-reading Beiser¹s ŒThe Proper Yacht¹.   What a wonderful piece
> of
literature
> it is...

³Still, my heart always sinks when I see a skinny,
> humpbacked
> short-ended
boat with a grotesquely small sail plan for its size
> bobbling
> around in
rippled water that should hardly disturb a rowboat.  I am
> unable to
> clear
from my mind the feeling that such boats result from the
> putrefaction
> of
more normal ones, the gases of decay having bloated shapely
> hulls
> into
pitiful blobs.²

And...quoting Arthur Ransome in the preface when
> dealing
> with the moral
dilemma of putting money into real estate vs a
>
> yacht....

³Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you
> cannot
> think of
moving them.  They are definitely inferior things, belonging
> to
> the
vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary incapable of
>
> gay
transition... The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man
>
> content
thenceforward with a single anchorage.  The desire to build a boat
> is
> the
desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final
>
> resting
place... When it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those
>
> that
should not be resisted.  It begins as a little cloud on a serene
>
> horizon.
It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing
>
> else.
You must build a boat to regain your freedom.²

Ah, perfect....


Gord
>
> #426 SURPRISE (and working on TOUCH WOOD, whose rescue would be simpler
if I
>
> started from scratch on a new
>
> boat...)

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