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Re: Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns

Posted By: John Winters
Date: Monday, 21 June 1999, at 12:57 p.m.

In Response To: Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns (Jan Gunnar Moe)

> What follows is pure speculations, to be corrected if wrong:

(SNIP of comments)

With everything else equal the following make a boat turn more easily when heeled: greater beam, higher block coefficient(Block coefficient is the volume of the boat divided by the volume of a block having the same beam, draft, and length), rounder sections at stern and/or more rocker (probably more complicated than anyone wants to read about here), shorter waterline length, and deeper chines forward, etc.

Cheers, John Winters

Messages In This Thread

Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns
Jan Gunnar Moe -- Thursday, 10 June 1999, at 4:00 a.m.

Re: Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns
Nick Schade -- Thursday, 10 June 1999, at 10:30 a.m.

Re: Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns
Ellis Andersen -- Wednesday, 16 June 1999, at 8:28 p.m.

Re: Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns
Ellis Andersen -- Wednesday, 16 June 1999, at 8:31 p.m.

Re: Hull shape and crispness of leaned turns
John Winters -- Monday, 21 June 1999, at 12:57 p.m.

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