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Re: constant camber

Posted By: Nick Schade
Date: Saturday, 30 October 1999, at 4:41 p.m.

In Response To: constant camber (john)

In constant camber construction you create a piece of curved plywood with which you create the hull. The plywood is laminated together with diagonal layers of precut strips of wood. This piece of plywood has the same curvature along its length. The advantage of keeping the "camber" constant is once you find the right shape for the strips of wood, you can use the same shape for all the strips instead of "spiling" each strip to fit together with the previous strips.

> anyone out there familiar with the "constant camber"
> design/construction method? what is the theory behind it? what are the
> advantages? apparrantly it is patented. any info would be appreciated.
> thank you john

Messages In This Thread

constant camber
john -- Friday, 29 October 1999, at 5:10 p.m.

Re: constant camber
Nick Schade -- Saturday, 30 October 1999, at 4:41 p.m.

Re: constant camber
john -- Sunday, 31 October 1999, at 12:09 a.m.

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