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Monday, August 4, 2014
Sailboat Part 4: Rigs and Sailplans
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Rigs The shape of a sail and the way it is attached to the mast is called a sail rig . A single mast may have more than one sail, and the...
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Sailboat Part 3: The Physics of Sails
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With a hull you have a boat, but it isn't a sailboat until you add sails. While a sail may look like it's just a sheet, sails are ac...
Sailboat Part 2: Hulls
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Before I can say anything about sails there is a more important part of the boat which makes the boat a boat: the hull. The hull is the part...
Friday, August 1, 2014
Sailboat Part 1: Why a Sailboat?
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A while ago, for whatever reason I became interested in boats, and particularly sailboats. Eventually I found some really interesting stuff ...
Thursday, July 31, 2014
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Welcome to Nginrng! (read "engineering"), a blog about science and engineering. I created this blog because I often find myself do...
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