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Jon Bannenberg Born 1929 (1929) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Died 26 May 2002 (2002-05-26) (aged 72–73) London, England Nationality Australian British Alma mater Canterbury High School Sydney Conservatorium of Music Occupation Yacht designer Awards Royal Designer for Industry (1978) One of Bannenberg's Yachts, Kingdom 5KR Jon Bannenberg, RDI (1929 – 26 May 2002) was an Australian ...
A johnboat in Florida, 1972 A small modern johnboat in the bed of a pickup truck. A johnboat [1] is a flat-bottomed boat [2] constructed of aluminum, fiberglass, wood, or polyethelene with one, two, or three seats, usually bench type.
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As the boat's speed increases, hydrodynamic pressure beneath the pad causes the hull to ride higher in the water, so that eventually the boat will be riding solely upon the pad area. At low speeds these hulls ride and handle similarly to a comparable V-hull; but at high speeds the padded hull can both out-accelerate and have a higher top speed ...
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He was a well-known designer of sailing boats of all sizes, including the Cherub, Javelin (NZ), [5] Firebug and Flying Ant classes of sailing dinghies. His designs used thin plywood, hard chines, a vertical stem and stern and light displacement. The minimum weight for a Cherub hull was 50 kilograms (110 lb) and a Firebug is 40 kilograms (88 lb ...
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All J/Boat designs are monohull, sloop-rigged keelboats constructed of cored sandwich fiberglass. [3] The current product line consists of eight models, ranging from the J/70 to the J/45 , ranging in length from 22.75 to 45.6 ft (6.9 to 13.9 m). [ 4 ]