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Lofting is particularly useful in boat building, when it is used to draw and cut pieces for hulls and keels. These are usually curved, often in three dimensions . Loftsmen at the mould lofts of shipyards were responsible for taking the dimensions and details from drawings and plans, and translating this information into templates, battens ...
S-bottom hulls are sailing boat hulls with a midships transverse half-section shaped like an s. [clarification needed] In the s-bottom, the hull has round bilges and merges smoothly with the keel, and there are no sharp corners on the hull sides between the keel centreline and the sheer line. Boats with this hull form may have a long fixed deep ...
The geometry of the F50's daggerboards have been extended outside the maximum beam of the boat to provide more righting moment. [3] [13] The F50s comprise a one-design development class. However, unlike most one-design sail classes with fixed rules, the F50s are being constantly developed with changes implemented on all boats at the same time.
The physics of sailing arises from a balance of forces between the wind powering the sailing craft as it passes over its sails and the resistance by the sailing craft against being blown off course, which is provided in the water by the keel, rudder, underwater foils and other elements of the underbody of a sailboat, on ice by the runners of an ...
This kit-boat model was introduced in 1954 in plywood initially and built until 1986 with a choice of a fractional Gunter rig with a sail area of 115.00 sq ft (10.684 m 2) or a fractional Bermuda rig with 99.00 sq ft (9.197 m 2) of sail. It has a length overall of 17.25 ft (5.3 m) and a waterline length of 14.00 ft (4.3 m).
A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig. [1] By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. [2] [3] A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat), an iceboat, or a sail-powered land vehicle.
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