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- Fri Sep 23, 2022 6:54 am
- Forum: Builder's Power Boats
- Topic: Woods Skoota 32DM
- Replies: 2620
- Views: 294184
Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
A frictionless transfer of your boat, all the best!
- Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:53 pm
- Forum: Builder's Power Boats
- Topic: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 751682
Re: ST21 Hybrid Powered "SKINNYDIP" Noosa Australia
Hello GB, points you should consider are: - a larger prop pitch means normally to increase the needed torque - that will slow down the motor rpm - the build in cooling ventilator will blow a smaller air stream with less rpm so the cooling effect decreases - the efficiency of the motor will (in most ...
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:37 pm
- Forum: Forum Software & Site Bug Reports
- Topic: Links to european rules given today don't work
- Replies: 1
- Views: 793
Links to european rules given today don't work
Regarding "Amateur boat building in europe" Jacques quoted Evan and added an own thread on this point. https://forums.bateau2.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29159#p403469 Both links provided don't work (at least on my computer). In an old post from me is a working link to the text in question...
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:25 am
- Forum: Builder's Small Boats
- Topic: Optimist going International!!! - Spain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1240
Re: Optimist going International!!! - Spain
Maybe this gives you an idea:gonandkarl wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:24 am Big question how much are the shipping costs to Europe ?
https://forums.bateau2.com/viewtopic.ph ... 97#p350943
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:20 am
- Forum: Builder's Power Boats
- Topic: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 751682
Re: ST21 Hybrid Powered "SKINNYDIP" Noosa Australia
[...] that the in-line bilge blower I was using would vibrate like shit, be noisy, and [...] a centrifugal blower [...] vibrated less and were quieter. [...] Besides the reasons mentioned above a centrifugal blower is to prefer, because it needs significantly less electric energy to move a certain ...
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:54 am
- Forum: Builder's Power Boats
- Topic: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 751682
Re: ST21 Hybrid Powered "SKINNYDIP" Noosa Australia
Hi Heimfried, When I asked for a quote for the components for the e-drive subsystem, I specified that the e-motor had to be able to handle the radial loads involved. Eco Boats Australia has guaranteed that the supplied motor can. OK then. It's interesting to learn that you are building an electric ...
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:41 am
- Forum: Builder's Power Boats
- Topic: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 751682
Re: ST21 Hybrid Powered "SKINNYDIP" Noosa Australia
Hello (I plan to start the building of an electric boat in the next weeks, after finishing my shop. Therefore I studied a lot about properties of electric motors.) You are going to use a belt drive to transmit the motor torque to the propellor shaft if I understand right. Tighten the belt means to p...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:02 am
- Forum: Sail Boats
- Topic: Shipping Lady C.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2556
Re: Shipping Lady C.
Maybe the greek customs find the reason for his opinion in greek rules following the Directive 2013/53/EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013L0053&from=DE In capter 1, article 2, number 2, letter a, roman number vii : " 2. This Directive shall not apply to th...
- Tue Apr 26, 2016 4:17 pm
- Forum: Power Boats
- Topic: GV15 COG Mods
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1169
Re: GV15 COG Mods
Such a moment should be written as 1,000 lbs * ft. (It is not pounds per feet, but pounds times feet.)jacquesmm wrote: [...]
To give you an example, if a big 200 lbs guy walks 5' forward of the LCG, that is a 1,000 lbs/ft moment [...]
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:05 am
- Forum: Questions before purchasing the plans and announcements..
- Topic: FS13 Skeg question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 922
Re: FS13 Skeg question
Isn't it the opposite?jacquesmm wrote: [...] the longer one will reduce the turning radius [...]