Just for kicks I rounded the chines off (sort of an elliptical rounding) on both the flat and round bottom boats and the difference in righting arm between rounded bilge and chine was 4.4% less righting arm for the flat bottom boat and 10% greater righting arm for the "V" bottom boat. Not an exhuastive study but still interesting (to me anyway). Cheers John Winters *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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