[Public-List] Great literature....

[Gordon Laco]

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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