I've been looking at boats again (bad girl!), and a friend of mine just got a Boreal Ellesmere, which appears to be an interesting boat. On their website they describe it has having "inverse hard chines." I'm not sure what that means - could it bear any relation to "notchiness?" Joan On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:02:46 -0500 "735769" <735769_at_ican.net> writes: > Nick wrote: > > (SNIP) > > > > > "notchiness" sounds to me like: The rate of change of the rate of > > change of the slope of the curve (follow that?) - or how quickly > the > > trend of how-hard-it-is-to-tip-farther changes. > > I see it the same way. The boats that I have heard people describe as > "notchy" have curves that show abrubt (OK, how much is abrubt?) > changes in > curvature both up and down slope. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 19:18:23 PST
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