Mike Wagenbach wrote: >Unless you are assuming rather poor fairing of the joints, this would seem to contradict the theory and beliefs that seem prevalent in the reading I've done on (mostly sailing) boats. A single hard chine is thought to generate a larger amount of turbulent drag than several less acute chines with much weaker vortexes, esp. when pithching in waves. Ummm...back to Fluids 101. There is less friction in turbulent flow than laminar flow. There may be more _drag_ in a single chine hull than a multi chine hull that could make it slower, but more _turbulent_ flow would make the boat faster. Shawn -- 0 ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Shawn Baker 0 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 11:59:48 PDT
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