About a week ago (I've been away), Matt Broze wrote, [snip] >These are totally my own observations and guesses regarding secondary >stability in kayaks and I make no claim to scientific validity or even at a >valid definition of the term (which probably exists somewhere in Naval >Architecture and someone will hopefully inform us of). [snip] I looked in Gillmer and Johnson's _Introduction to Naval Architecture_ (which John W recommended to me as a good one-volume book, since I didn't want to spring for a better and more expensive three-volume one). I found several entries in the index for "initial stability", and no mention of "secondary" or "final" stability. My guess is that it isn't a real naval-architecture term, nor indeed anything well defined, but just an ambiguous term invented to mean "something other than initial stability." In that case, Matt's definition/description is as good as any, and IMO much better than most. Bruce Bruce Winterbon bwinterb_at_magma.ca http://magma.ca:80/~bwinterb Economics by mantra -- "communism", "capitalism", "free markets",... -- is a fraud. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 18 1999 - 09:49:07 PDT
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