Re: [Paddlewise] Chines and Stability

From: Nick Schade <schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:00:15 -0500
With two boats of the same waterline shape and radically different 
sectional shape, both boats will react in much the same manner when 
nearly upright. Where initial stability ends and "secondary" or 
"overall" takes over is subjective, but within a few degrees of 
upright, all that really matters is the distribution  of the 
waterline. In other words if you take two boats and slice them 
horizontally at the waterline and the widths match at all points 
along the length , the initial stability will be the same (assuming 
the Center of Gravity [CG] is the same relative to the waterline).

A cylinder will only have zero initial stability if the center of 
gravity is at approximately the center of the cylinder or above it. 
If you made the CG of the box just as high, you would get a similar 
response. But since a cylinder displaces less volume than a box of 
the same waterline shape, it gets complicated to compare using these 
models.

Nick


At 12:26 PM -0500 11/16/00, Coplan, Karl wrote:
>Nick Schade writes:
>
>"Initial stability is dependant almost exclusively on waterline width.
>Two boats with the same waterline width and shape will have the same
>initial stability regardless of chine shape. Obviously, parameters
>such as seat height and other factors effecting the vertical center
>of gravity will also have an effect."
>
>Nick  -- what do you mean by waterline width here?  What you are saying
>sounds extremely counterintuitive, unless I misunderstand what is meant by
>initial stability.  For example, imagine a box and a cylinder of the same
>length and width -- they would have an identical "waterline width" (indeed
>the waterlines could be identical shape and size.  The cylinder would have
>zero intial stability (and zero secondary stability) while the box would
>have considerable initial and secondary stability.
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>--Karl Coplan
>
>P.S. sadly put my Coastal back in the basement last week after some 70
>Hudson River crossings this year!



Nick Schade
Guillemot Kayaks
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