Sweet seeing the engine land in place. Progress is a good thing mate.
getting bigger as you go
I really love the look of this vessel. Having no fly bridge is a huge plus in my opinion.
Very nice...
Bill
Matt - You get AXE too big... you'll spend half your time chasen Flic down in cabins while on the hook! - LOL
Good on ya Mate... progress is a sunny, pretty word!
I really love the look of this vessel. Having no fly bridge is a huge plus in my opinion.
Very nice...
Bill
I agree totally. With decent design, you have the best of both worlds from a lower helm or pilot house. Flybridges require so much extra duplication of everything, for little gain in my view. That Integrity 380/440 is a lovely craft.
You then have all that lovely top surface for solar panels, water collection, radar/radio tower, etc, and still minimal issues getting under bridges.
Yeah, yeah, I know - there are folk who drive 95% of the time from up there. That's fine, you just keep doin' what you're doin', ok..? But when the goin' gets rough…you better have a lower helm...
WOW! 1600 watts. I wonder if that is enough for a DC get home motor?
Yo, Matt - Maybe I missed these answers in 1061 posts - Wow that is a lot o' cool posts with more ta come!
1. Gross weight (3/4 loaded) you anticipate for AXE?
2. Draft you anticipate AXE to have?
3. Cruising hp your engine could provide Axe?
4. AXE's bottom (not yours or Flic's - LOL) calced at D, SD, or P?
5. Average cruise speed and top speed anticipated?
Please, don’t answer some or any of these questions if you don’t feel comfortable at this stage of your unbelievable restoration... I’m just being grand-stand inquisitive as you come around the corner toward the back stretch in this horse race where you are the Jockey, Flick is your trainer, and Axe is the power horse you own that is running out front by many, many lengths!
Never look back mate... whisper to that soon to float pony as you and Flic ride her hard toward finish. Then splash her well and cool her down right... she's gonna be pride of the fleet for many years of Pleasure Boat Cruisen!
Your Boaten Chum - Art
WOW! 1600 watts. I wonder if that is enough for a DC get home motor?
Run a nice heater or two for those sunny but chilly-temp days!
Charge the liven heck into a big battery bank!
Light 16 100w lamps to keep all cabins bright!!
Perk coffee... fry bacon/eggs... charge all sorts of appliance self contained batts...
Self energize an ample sized DC get home motor - I duno?? Well charged big batt bank with 1600w ongoing solar-charge would shure last for long time before depletion... even if the DC motor used over 1600w!
What say ya Matt???
From memory of the pics over time I'd say if SD (at a point just beyond FD) was 0 and planing was 100 AXE should fall in at about 65 to 75. Way too much rocker to class as planing but considerably closer to planing than anything resembling displacement. Also the chine width or beam reduces aft but not much. The cross section amidships is noticeably larger than at the transom. There may be enough rocker to bring the bow up above hull speed .. not sure how much. The hull stretch will be a blessing in pitch stability and efficiency from 8 knots to about 15. Above 15 you may not be able to see over the bow. So plan on a slightly high wheelhouse or placement well fwd. I see AXE running very nicely at 11 knots. How well she runs will now be dependent on how light she's been built and her hull is not light but she still could be no heavier than a typical plastic boat. But all the "stuff" that comes aboard from here on will be a negative .... performance wise. If I were Hendo I'd be trying to get most of the heavy "stuff" amidships avoiding fuel tanks aft and water fwd. A small WT fwd should be fine and a smallish fuel tank aft that is used first would be OK depending on how small. These ideas are all guesses of course.
Art,
Under special circumstances trim tabs are helpful. I've never seen them attached to anything except the transom stern junction line. Possibly they could be of value on a multi-stepped hull on an aft step.
The best route to good trim is usually through good boat design and weight kept centered in the boat. One of the great advantages of inboard boats. Keeping weight amidships prevents or reduces squatting, bows burying, directional stability issues (especially on following seas) and sometimes pounding. The effects of lots of weight in the ends are subject to inertia. Once a boat is set in motion turning and yawing, plunging ... stopping that motion can be difficult because of inertia. Once a boat starts to yaw on a following sea the sea AND inertia tend to continue the yaw .. the motion that can result in a broach. One needs a big enough rudder to overcome the weight and resulting inertia.