Subject: Re: [harryproa] Re: Schooner mast placement? |
From: Arto Hakkarainen |
Date: 6/2/2011, 5:00 PM |
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au |
Reply-to: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au |
From what I have experienced and observed the weight in the ends makes a boat a rocking chair. It just keeps on rocking (pitching is of course a more nautical term...) once you get it to move. The analysis below is quite correct that the weight in the ends makes a boat plough deeper in to coming wave than centered weight. That is why there is more resistance to going through the waves. And once the wave lifts the bow it will keep on moving up due to inertia if you have weight in the ends. And once it gets to that moving it will keep on rocking... or pitching that is. And the ride is slowlyer, wetter and more uncomfortable than with the centered weight.
Arto
--- On Thu, 6/2/11, Dennis Cox <dec720@att.net> wrote:
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