Name: AYRS South-East UK meeting (followed by the AGM of the Society)
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.

Events & other announcements • Weymouth Speedweek 2020
After much deliberation and many discussions, the organisers have sadly concluded that they will not be able to run Weymouth Speed Week in 2020.They would like to thank the WPNSA and their many supporters and volunteers for their efforts in trying to find ways in which they might be able to run the event and […]
AYRS Meetings • Speedweek meeting cancelled
As Speedweek itself has been cancelled, AYRS is cancelling the Weymouth meeting due to take place during Speedweek on 7th October.Statistics: Posted by AYRSWebAdmin — Fri Aug 14, 2020 11:28 am
Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Re: Hello from Berlin, Germany
Welcome Günter, - look forward to hearing more about your boat building project and perhaps seeing some pictures. I have not been to Berlin but I understand that there are many navigable rivers, canals and lakes in the area and I imagine that these would be ideal for leasurely exploration with a mobile houseboat such […]
Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Hello from Berlin, Germany
Hello everyone,my name is Günter and I live in Berlin, Germany. Since 2017 I’m building a boat: Cabin-Katamaran 6.3 m (LOA), ply on frame, Bernd Kohler design “ECO62”. She will be driven by electric (outboard) motors, as far solar assisted as possible. I’m interested in measurements of some values like drag, power efficiency of propelling […]
Multihulls • Re: Asymmetric outrigger hulls or amas
Hi Georges,There are few things to be aware of: Construction: I thing foldable plywood would be great for an outrigger. The principle is fully describe in the Gougeon brothers book and could be design by folding some hard paper as template.Profile design: A good start will be to get inspiration by the Proa dagger board […]