Catalyst 55 is now available for paid-up members

13th October 201913th October 2019 AYRS Webmaster 0 Comments

In the Forum at https://www.ayrs.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=37 If you’re not already registered on the Forum you will need to register and be

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Catalyst 54 is now available for paid-up members

8th January 201913th October 2019 AYRS Editor 0 Comments

Catalyst 54 is now available for paid-up members In the Forum at https://www.ayrs.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=37 If you’re not already registered on the

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AYRS announces Catalyst No 49

28th September 201527th November 2017 AYRS Webmaster

AYRS announces Catalyst No 49 … … is now available, and can be downloaded from here. Online members will shortly

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 […]