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    Aerodynmics and boat design !

    How many people know anything about and pay any attention to aerodynamics when they put a huge motor of the back of there boats and go like hell and OOOPS it flips over ?
    Recently looking at the amount a mono hulled boats that flip over and get completely airborne amazes me .
    Tunnels race boats went through all this long time ago and lessons learned but seems monos are pretty slow to catch on . Specially guys with older boats they are mounting really big motors onto and trying to make them fly and do things there were never meant to ever do . Once the speed gets up aerodynamics takes over completely from Hydrodynamics as the boats are suspended above the waters surface in surface effect!.
    With the nose up attitude everyone thinks looks cool the deck surface is like the upper rear surface of a wing in stall mode sucking the boat upwards so with the little bit of help from a wave while getting airborne its hello birdie and oops splash
    Last edited by tunnels; 11-06-2016 at 05:51 PM.
    Messing round with boats is fun !! the learning never stops ,even after more than 30 years there's always something new happening somewhere ! BUT somethings never change and some problems never go away and just keep reoccurring !!so moved into Composite Forensics , Now that something completely new !!

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