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    Documents


    Gaping over small motor boat on Baggen 2009

    This page just contains a list of documents I refer to in my web. I have also added a couple of documents I have published in various sailing fora such as the multihull mailing list, crew.org.nz and Sailing Anarchy.

    Documents by me

    • On the tiller geometry of cats

    • Friction in lines and blocks — plain bearing blocks give ball bearing blocks a run for their money

    • Dagger boards — how big should they be?

    • Some aspects of structural engineering of dagger boards

    • Symmetric or Asymmetric?

    • Afterburner recklessly modelled

    • Modelling 52 ft ferry cat

    • Making FRP tubes using the Plym method

    • On the load sharing of track fasteners

    • Bonding fasteners to wood using statistical data and methods.

    • Cat hull stressed by dagger board

    Documents by other authors

    • Ackermann steering for catamarans by Tom Speer

    • Lecture notes on ground vehicle lateral dynamics by Bengt Jacobson

    • Ocean going multihull design and safety considerations by Hugo Myers

    • Structural analysis of a multihull racing boat by Benoit Gautier

    • The catamaran Miss Nylex by H.R. Martin

    • The Gougeon brothers on boat construction

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