Boat Design

New designs from our drawing board, and assorted thoughts on boat design in general.

When are the new boat designs coming?

My handful of regular human readers, and my truckload of regular spambot readers, might be wondering why I haven't listed any new boat designs since the Almaguin 400 and 500.

The answer is that I'm currently in the (hopefully) final stages of a graduate degree in medical physics. That means a lot of time in the lab, and a lot of late nights and weekends spent poring over calculations, making figures, and writing up a thesis.

Model testing the Almaguin, part 5: Detailed behaviour

In the last few entries, I've covered the construction of the framework and hull for the Almaguin 400 test model, the towing rig, and some videos of the boat's behaviour. In this final episode of the series, we'll take a detailed look at what we've learned about this boat's behaviour from the model tests.

Model testing the Almaguin, part 4: She hits the water, and man does she fly!

After all this talk about building test models and towing rigs, the three people still reading this are probably wondering just how it all turned out.

Model testing the Almaguin, part 3: The towing rig

Previous posts on model testing the Almaguin have looked at the construction of the framework and the hull surface. Today, we'll take a look at the towing rig. But first, the close-to-finished model:

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