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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour? *PIC*
By:jamesshuang
Date: 7/7/2014, 12:00 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour? (Etienne Muller)

Ahh! Thank you for that analogy! I'm an avid cyclist, and I know exactly what you mean by long wheelbase / short wheelbase bikes. For a bike, the short wheelbase "faster" bikes also tend to be more tippy, but that doesn't seem to be true with boats. Without that tradeoff, then the longer boat is totally the way to go.

Speaking of which, I think I've decided on the Sea Cruiser, especially given this new information. I'm trying to build it using 3D-printed cross-sections. I've managed to build a fully parametric model in OpenSCAD, so I could plug in the numbers for any single-chine boat and make it automatically generate all the pieces. I've now printed section 1 and it seems pretty sturdy. These sections are far too large to print whole on the printer, especially with ABS, so I've been printing them in sections and joining them with acetone, half-lap joints, and screws. I'll post the parametric model once I build the whole thing and verify that the plastic pieces are strong enough!

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Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
jamesshuang -- 7/5/2014, 4:46 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2014, 8:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2014, 8:36 am
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Bill Mayberry -- 7/5/2014, 9:59 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/5/2014, 2:03 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Bill Mayberry -- 7/5/2014, 2:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
jamesshuang -- 7/5/2014, 2:19 pm
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Lodeon -- 7/5/2014, 12:07 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/6/2014, 12:39 am
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Sean Dawe -- 7/7/2014, 8:18 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/7/2014, 12:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/8/2014, 12:16 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/8/2014, 1:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2014, 1:23 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/9/2014, 2:02 am
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Sean Dawe -- 7/7/2014, 8:21 am
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Allan -- 7/5/2014, 8:00 pm
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jamesshuang -- 7/5/2014, 8:10 pm
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Allan -- 7/5/2014, 11:27 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/6/2014, 11:57 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/6/2014, 5:19 am
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Ken Blanton -- 7/6/2014, 5:52 am
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Jon Mortimer -- 7/6/2014, 8:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour? *PIC*
jamesshuang -- 7/7/2014, 12:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/7/2014, 12:15 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
jamesshuang -- 7/7/2014, 12:54 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 7/7/2014, 1:18 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Bill Hamm -- 7/8/2014, 12:21 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
jamesshuang -- 7/8/2014, 12:59 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Bill Hamm -- 7/9/2014, 1:28 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Jon Mortimer -- 7/8/2014, 3:46 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
jamesshuang -- 7/8/2014, 6:18 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Jon Mortimer -- 7/9/2014, 9:28 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2014, 12:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Cruiser vs Sea Tour?
Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2014, 12:30 am