Re: [bolger] Re: Brick motor
>From: "Lincoln Ross" <lincolnr@...>No but I bet you could get it to roll :)
>I wonder if you made a Brick really sturdy and attached the motor on
>the side if you could get it to plane while going sideways?
Micheal Surface still building
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--- Inbolger@egroups.com, "Richard Spelling" <richard@s...> wrote:
you did. I'd expect that the great increase in moment of inertia
without a corresponding increase in damping would result in more
pitch
oscillations, but decreased immediate response to a wave. However, I
think the Brick's ends are so buoyant that this latter problem
wouldn't be all that significant. A nasty scenario in any case,
particularly if you have motorboats providing unidirectional waves at
a fixed frequency. There would probably be one particular motorboat
in
the area that would turn the boat into a hobbyhorse with its wake.
I don't understand how it works, but yesterday we saw wakes
with breaking waves in the middle of the lake, no boats nearby.
> > ballast to the other end. (thus increasing moment of inertia so italso
> > will pitch up and down much more when hitting waves). You will
> Actualy, it would pitch up and down less... so waves will come overthe top
> more...Well, it would pitch more when you didn't want it to, and less when
>
you did. I'd expect that the great increase in moment of inertia
without a corresponding increase in damping would result in more
pitch
oscillations, but decreased immediate response to a wave. However, I
think the Brick's ends are so buoyant that this latter problem
wouldn't be all that significant. A nasty scenario in any case,
particularly if you have motorboats providing unidirectional waves at
a fixed frequency. There would probably be one particular motorboat
in
the area that would turn the boat into a hobbyhorse with its wake.
I don't understand how it works, but yesterday we saw wakes
with breaking waves in the middle of the lake, no boats nearby.
> ballast to the other end. (thus increasing moment of inertia so itActualy, it would pitch up and down less... so waves will come over the top
> will pitch up and down much more when hitting waves). You will also
more...
> I wonder if you made a Brick really sturdy and attached the motor onHey, now that's an idea! I bet it would work pretty good too, with the minor
> the side if you could get it to plane while going sideways?
exception of an unfortunate tendency to destroy itself when the forward side
(?) slamed into a nice big wave...