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In 1898 Italian inventor Enrico Forlanini began work on a "ladder" foil system. Granted patents in both the USA and the UK, he developed a prototype and tested it on Lake Maggiore soon after. John Thornycroft, a British boat designer, followed up Forlanini’s work with a series of scale models that used stepped hulls and a single foil. By 1909 he had a full-scale 22 ft prototype up and running.
Today, a cigarette boat is a slender, fiberglass vessel that is built for small crews and high speeds. The "go-fast" design, which raised the bar for extreme speedboat performance, was the innovation of designer, builder, and professional racer Donald Aronow in the 1960s. Aronow raced several famous boats including the Cigarette, Cary, Magnum Marine, Donzi, and Formula speedboats.
A Formula 1 powerboat driver has buttons on the steering wheel and the floor to move the outboard engine at the back of the boat in and out as well as up and down minimizing drag and optimizing acceleration.
Using two hulls bridged by a deck, the catamaran or tunnel hull design provides an additional beam, improved stability, and less drag resulting in increased speed. The tunnel hulls also produce an air cushion below them which applies a lifting force and less friction with water.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), fatalities resulting from boating accidents are second only to highway fatalities. More than 80 percent of recreational boat operators involved in fatal boating accidents lack driver training and have not attended any boater education course. An inexperienced boater lacks the knowledge required to take the proper steps in a life-threatening situation, such as a collision, fire, capsizing with a man overboard, and sinking or flooding. more
Jet Stone will help remove any negative energies that are affecting your relationship. It guards against the unwanted vibrations created by negative thoughts and words. more
They can often be unsettling or expose some pretty stark truths, after all – but Jet will help you to stay strong! [links]
You can also use this combination to cleanse other healing crystals and stones. [links]
The metallic luster of polished lignite has led many civilizations to revere the stone and to attribute a magical quality to it.
Whilst we do have life-jackets, we have never yet worn them, but have sometimes used a harness. It doesn’t make us better. Or worse. It is simply our choice of how we do it. [links]
Over the years I suspect our tolerance of what is an acceptable speed has become wildly different to most, given the number of Bermudian rig boats we see motoring with a fair breeze crying out to be used. more
MC is a go-anywhere boat—strong, practical—and we dreamt of how comfortable our life aboard would be compared to Hannah…however, all way beyond our price range.
We kept everything simple:
The AIS receiver has been a boon, but we’re pretty useless at bothering with the weather, so the SSB receiver doesn’t get that much use. For ocean crossings I mean—there we tend to get a single station forecast and deal with whatever we get on passage. [links]
We take an old-fashioned view about this sort of thing, mostly because, as a soldier at Kiel in the sixties, I taught other soldiers to sail, and safety obsession, EPIRBs and the rest of it, were all in the future. The boats were engineless (and most other things -less) but we did learn the importance of staying on board—one hand for the boat, etc.—acknowledging and accepting that sailing small boats has a risk element. It still does. [links]
Ok, This is totally emabarassing, I crossed the battery terminals and sparks flew everywhere! It didn't dawn on me that crossing the battery terminals was the problem when the sparks flew, so I tried it again and got it not to spark. What an idiot, After about 2 seconds or less, I see white smoke coming from the alternator thinking ahhhh this isn't right so I immediately unhooked the battery. After my heart quit beating a million times a minute, I checked the alternator wiring and they were a little warm but not fused together. I have not tried to start it yet (with the battery installed correctly) but want advice on what I might have jacked up. I know I get to wear the Dunce Hat for a while and deservingly so.
Re: Crossed Battery Terminals - BoneHeaded!! here
You let the magic smoke out of the altenator here