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.

Technical Papers for review and comment • Re: Howard Fund
No, it's time to go sleeping for winter! it's already snowing here! And it's also time to put data and words together to complete a report !Statistics: Posted by AlexQ23 — Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:47 am
Technical Papers for review and comment • Re: Howard Fund
Well done getting to this stage - your boat looks good, sails appear to set well. Of course our Editor will be pleased to receive anything you can write about it! Are you planing to do more testing this year, or will it wait to Springtime now?Statistics: Posted by John Perry — Wed Oct 28, […]
Technical Papers for review and comment • Re: Howard Fund
Kasala latest newsLet’s say first of all that the boat is a wonder!! She is sailing really well with her roto-duplex rig! A new rig is born! With only two sails, we can reach the same speed (around 5 kn with a 10/12 kn wind), no matter the sector the wind is blowing. 30/40° beating […]
Theory • Re: Spline (mathematical)
All good fun, but I cant help thinking that any good drawing software will allow you to draw a curve through a set of points then interpolate between those points.You are obviously right. The question is only which of the possibilities is easier at hand in a case you need it. As I'm not able […]
Theory • Re: Spline (mathematical)
Hi Helmfried - thank you for emailing me your spreadsheet and for the English translation of the 'Gebrauchsanleitung' - this does help since like many people in the UK I have almost no understanding of other languages! I can see the purpose of the spreadsheet and I can see that in the tab Eingabe there […]