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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.:
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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.
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My favorite essays by Jim
Michalak. Jim is a retired “rocket scientist” who not
only designs homebuilt boats but explains why boats are designed the way they
are.
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Sailing
Canoes
A class project for SM144 (Winter 2008) at WSU-Lake.
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.