Heavy Weather

[REBrueckner]

We've discuused on several occasions that our Hattera are not so well suited for ocean crossings....just not designed for it...Here are a couple of photographs that visually illustrate a better design for such open waters.

In the first photo note the incredibly deep forefoot on this commercial vessel, actually a bulbous bow design, but it's the deep forefoot that better maintains contact with the water as a swift ocean wave passes.

In the second photo note how a hull that resists planing down the front a wave is advantageous in the position pictured. Not to mention plently of freeboard.

In the third photo note the breaking seas. You do not want large forward cabin windows, large windshields, not even large side salon windows.

These remind me a bit of running down the Chesapeake last fall with Bill Allen....aboard his 43 ft DC Hatt!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: Thanks to whoever simplified posting photos...now it's a "breeze" (pun intended).

 

[Mambeaux]

I passed that guy on my way out a few weeks ago!

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[davidwigler]

On what kind of vessel was the photographer?

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Randy was there! ws

SOMEBODY finally figured out how to post pics here!! The moon is next!

 

[REBrueckner]

I've been using the first photo as a screen saver for a while and I just noticed the bulbous bow forefoot is actually deeper than the freeboard...more depth underwater than feeboard above water!!!! I would not have expected THAT for efficiency and seakeeping, but there it is.

 

[Trojan]

I remember that day. I stayed at the club!

BILL

 

[Boatnut]

Randy was there! ws

SOMEBODY finally figured out how to post pics here!! The moon is next!

Does that mothership have a bulbous nose. I sense a 4 pager on hull design creeping up on us.

 

[rsmith]

Does that mothership have a bulbous nose. I sense a 4 pager on hull design creeping up on us.

The boat in REB's pic is a Seiner they usualy work in pairs pulling the net inbetween them. Chances are they were working and were sisterboats.

 

[krush]

There's a new hotness in ship design. I don't know the term, but it's to actually design a reverse flair bow so that it plows through the waves instead of going over them....makes the vessel look like a pregnet hunk of steel, but function >> form.

 

[Boatsb]

There's a new hotness in ship design. I don't know the term, but it's to actually design a reverse flair bow so that it plows through the waves instead of going over them....makes the vessel look like a pregnet hunk of steel, but function >> form.

Hey krush I'm not sure we are thinking the same on hotness.


These are HOT

 

[Boatsb]

These are not.

 

[spartonboat1]

These are not.

I thought we were supposed to tone down the politics and not post any the prez' cabinet members.

On a technical note, the "new" bows bear a strong resemblance to WWI dreadnoughts.

 

[REBrueckner]

"Does that mothership have a bulbous nose. I sense a 4 pager on hull design creeping up on us."

We did discuss bulbous bow designs several years ago....somebody posted some design data...an expensive addition!!!.....don't do much good on 50 ft and under boats...Nordhaven used them on the 62 ft model I think...must do SOMETHING on "small" hulls ....

 

[DeeRow]

...it's to actually design a reverse flair bow so that it plows through the waves instead of going over them....

It looks like the bow on the container ship will focus the force of the waves on the pilothouse windows. They must be designed to handle this.

 

[nyrussell]

uh oh, Lee Majors would be angry!!!

WOO hOOO Farrah!!!! Love them Angels.