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Re: Skin-on-Frame: DIY SOF kayak for big & tall?
By:Sean McCauley
Date: 7/29/2016, 1:30 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: DIY SOF kayak for big & tall? (Dan Caouette (CSCWC))

You have to be a bit careful scaling as displacement is a CUBIC function.
For instance:
+5% uniform scale factor (length, width and depth) will yield a 16% increase in capacity (1.05^3).
+10% = 33% increase
+15% = 52% increase

Ah! Excellent, thank you. I suspected this might be the case. Do the materials need to change with a considerable scale difference of, say, 15%?

(Sorry, very green here)

Thanks everyone for all the responses. Best forum on the Internet.

-S

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Skin-on-Frame: DIY SOF kayak for big & tall?
Sean McCauley -- 7/28/2016, 10:14 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: DIY SOF kayak for big & tall?
Ken Blanton -- 7/28/2016, 11:29 pm
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John VB -- 7/29/2016, 6:40 am
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Sean McCauley -- 7/29/2016, 1:22 pm
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John VB -- 7/30/2016, 3:50 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/29/2016, 6:40 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/29/2016, 8:15 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/29/2016, 8:36 am
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Sean McCauley -- 7/29/2016, 1:30 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/30/2016, 12:02 am
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Sean McCauley -- 7/29/2016, 1:27 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/30/2016, 2:03 am
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Sean McCauley -- 7/30/2016, 7:53 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/30/2016, 8:25 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 7/30/2016, 9:01 am
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Sean McCauley -- 7/30/2016, 7:55 pm
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T Duncan -- 7/30/2016, 8:01 pm
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Jeff Horton (Kudzu Craft) -- 7/30/2016, 8:09 am
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Jeff Horton (Kudzu Craft) -- 7/30/2016, 8:14 am
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Sean McCauley -- 7/30/2016, 7:56 pm
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Rich Wagner -- 8/8/2016, 6:09 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/9/2016, 1:55 am