Zoom Mtg. 2 May -Building a Sliding Seat Rowing Boat – John Perry

2nd May 20206th June 2020 John Perry 2 Comments rowing boat, stitch and glue, Water jet

For our previous meeting John covered the design of a sliding seat recreational rowing boat, he now continues with a

Zoom Mtg. 25 April 2020 – Designing a Sliding Seat Rowing Boat – John Perry

27th April 202017th June 2020 John Perry 0 Comments rowing, rowing boat, sliding seat

John Perry gave a presentation about the design process for a 4.57m (15 foot) sliding seat rowing boat, this presentation being followed by video demonstrating the design features. The construction and use of the boat will be the subject of a following meeting.

Gossip & other snippets • Power from kites
At a recent AYRS on-line meeting we briefly discussed generating power from kites and I showed a short video clip about the system developed by Scottish company Kite Power Systems (their intellectual property now I think sold to a Norwegian company). The idea of this is to run a kite line in and out with […]
Gossip & other snippets • Re: Antifouling
At the recent AYRS Zoom meeting on anti-fouling methods we briefly mentioned 'boat bags' - see boatbath.co. These are roughly as you sugest although sodium hypochlorite (domestic bleach) rather than salt is normally added to the water in the bag. According to the website, only half a cup of bleach is sufficient to dose the […]
Gossip & other snippets • Antifouling
Here is a news item on an antifouling, superhydrophobic diamond film, which is supposed to be robust, too: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-antibiofo ... amond.html This is still basic research, so it will be a while until it becomes clear whether it will ever come to market. I have been wondering, though, about another way to inhibit growth, and […]
Boats • Re: Paradox/Yuloh/Electric
The electric 'godille' looks neat and simple - a clever design. We have several AYRS members who are experimenting with Yulohs and may not be aware that this is a recognised sport in France - perhaps we could mention this in our publications.JohnStatistics: Posted by John Perry — Sat Jun 06, 2020 7:14 pm
Boats • Paradox/Yuloh/Electric
I very much enjoyed the recent Zoom meeting about Alastair Law's Paradox micro cruiser. There was a bit of discussion about auxiliary power which brought to mind something I saw recently billed as an 'electric yuloh' (well actually an 'electric godille' because they are French):https://www.temofrance.com/en_GB/This seems rather expensive for what it is but it looks […]