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- From: whoward@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Will Howard)
- Subject: Re: Coyote spotted, no sign of Mike Plant
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.214558.7744@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
- References: <1992Nov22.230520.123057@watson.ibm.com> <lgvg1kINNhgo@cronkite> <1992Nov23.100737.18127@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov23.142819.12018@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:45:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.142819.12018@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- legacy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (wayne.m.simpson) writes:
- > The whole idea of the extreme beam boat is to maximize initial stability
- >in order to carry a big rig. That way, you can get by with less ballast,
- >and therefore, less overall weight. Trouble is, that wide hull is heavy,
- >so you need an even bigger rig to drive it. With a bigger rig, you need
- >more ballast to mantain the required stability. Get the picture?
- > I think a better concept is the one explored by "Holger Danske", des-
- >igned by Dave Gerr. She is just the opposite of boats like Coyote, with
- >an extremely narrow beam. How narrow? 9 feet, 7 inches (2.9 meters) for
- >a boat 60 feet long overall. Long, narrow hulls are more easily driven
- >than wide ones, and are also lighter. So Holger Danske didn't need such
- >a big rig to get her moving. How small? Only 987 square feet. With such
- >a small rig, she didn't need so much ballast to keep her upright and
- >total wieght was thereby kept down. Holger Danske did pretty well in the
- >last BOC, and I think her concept is ultimately the one that can provide
- >for a boat that is both fast and safe.
-
- The "Santa Cruz" boats such as Bill Lee's SC27 through 70 series, the Olson 30,
- Moore 24, etc., also go this design route of a light, narrow, highly ballasted,
- easily driven hull. Some of them have done some serious offshore races like the
- Transpac, but I don't know what kind of weather they encountered.
-