Sailing
and Boatbuilding at
Sailing at WSU-Lake Links to our effort to establish an
on-campus sailing club. Please visit this
page and contact us so we can put you on our emailing list. I promise to avoid unnecessary “newsletters”
and “bulletins.
My
Boatbuilding Semi-Blog Index is where I store past efforts and future plans. A few items from that index are listed below
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Why home boatbuilding makes for ideal
student research
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Toy Boat Project is perhaps my
best example of collaborative student research
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Barges
I am not presently working on the design for a sailing barge, though I
think it’s a good idea for this lake.:
o
Dimensional
analysis and polytarp sails
explains
why polytarp sails are best suited for small boats
and why large polytarp sails should be broken up into
ketches or schooners. The calculation is
so “real-life” that it is probably wrong!
(More precisely, it is flawed in a minor way; the final conclusion is
probably correct.) I plan to someday
incorporate this into a physics distance
learning unit.
Cross planked sharpie
I recently took this off the blog because I am
not convinced that it is a good idea.
Do Trilobytes Crab? I recently put this on the web because I think
it is a good idea.