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Re: stretch single to double

Posted By: Mike Scarborough
Date: Sunday, 7 February 1999, at 7:05 p.m.

In Response To: Re: stretch single to double (Randy Knauff)

If you just increase the spacing between stations by 4in and there are 18 equally spaced stations stations to your plans, you will get a 24ft boat with 33% more volume. The shape of the boat will not come into play because you are distoring the entire boat evenly along one dimension.

It's no different than taking a 1 x 1 x 1 cube with a volume of 1 unit and stretching one dimension to make a 1 x 2 x 1 cube with a volume of 2 units.

If you only wanted to add a foot or so to the boat you could just add an extra station by duplicating the station at the widest part of the boat. That would add volume faster than it would add length. But I don't think it would work for a 4/3 stretch.

Messages In This Thread

Re: stretch single to double
Randy Knauff -- Sunday, 7 February 1999, at 6:04 p.m.

Re: stretch single to double
Mike Scarborough -- Sunday, 7 February 1999, at 7:05 p.m.

Re: stretch single to double
Randy Knauff -- Monday, 8 February 1999, at 10:31 p.m.

Re: stretch single to double
Nick Schade -- Monday, 8 February 1999, at 11:26 a.m.

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