Name: CANCELLED – AYRS South-East UK meeting
Start: 2021-01-24T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-01-24T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Basingstoke Canal Centre

Meeting Reports

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.

Theory • Spline (mathematical)
Sometimes splines are useful in boat building. Physical splines or - more often used today - mathematical splines. A few years ago I wrote a VBA Excel folder with (natural) cubic splines. Input consists of a set of x-y-coordinates (e.g. half breadth of a waterline) output is graphically displayed and will give you for any […]
Hulls & Keels • Re: Boat Hydrostatics visualized
I aggree that it would be a waste of time for a single amateur to try to compete against professional software. There is only room for developing software tools in niches which are not covered. I would by far not be able to develop a (specialized) CAD Software, I'm not even able to work with […]
Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Re: Hello from Berlin, Germany
Until now I don't think a ventilation of the space between the plywood panels is necessary. For sure there will be some condensation in cold nights. But it will evaporate once the sun shines on that deck. As I work on boat building in a tent and watch temperature and humidity and log their values […]
Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Re: Hello from Berlin, Germany
Good project - nice to have it documented on-line. Looking at your pictures at boote-forum.de I was interested to see the way you are making the roof of the cabin. Good to have the airspace between the upperside of the expanded polystyrene and the innerside of the outer deck skin and I guess that you […]
Gossip & other snippets • Syroco proposal for Sailing Speed Record Challenger
AYRS member Neils Daken has passed me a link to a new proposal to challenge for the world sailing speed record - https://syro.co/en/speed-record/This is a concept that AYRS members, myself included, have discusssed over and over again during Weymouth Speedweeks and AYRS technical meetings, but there is a big gap between talking theory and making […]