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Your question is itself oversimplified. If the ability to take sights
in a seaway were at the top of an NA's list of priorities, he would
probably be able to accommodate a wide range of styling features (above
waterline appearance). I doubt this has ever happened.

The steadiness would be strongly affected by the moments of inertia in
roll and pitch, and by the initial stability (mostly form) in the same
motions. But since both the pitch and roll combinations will have
natural frequencies, any one design will have some waves it likes, and
some it doesn't. Modifying both pich and roll will be damping for both
from hull shape.

Long overhangs were a response to a rating rule that measured waterline
at rest and weighted it heavily. In that sense they are ancestors to
the measurement bumps on IOR boats of the 70s and 80s. They are
"classic" only because the rating rules that produced them are long
past.

This discussion started with boats that have been clinker built around
the North Sea for ave 1000 years (vis Gokstadt ship, etc) and have as
much to do with construction technique as anything else.

Canoe sterns on fiberglas boats are a styling reference to these and
other ancestral types, a different matter entirely. The last time one
appeared on a boat intended to be raced was, AFIK, Bob Direktor's "Wild
Goose" from the late 1960s, a CCA design.

Adlard Coles in the first edition of his heavy-weather classic had
already observed that large buoyant sterns were more survivable in
storms than pointy ends. That has not changed.

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:51:02 +0100, Axel Vis wrote:

>Just out of curiosity: Is a classic design with a narrow stern, large
>overhang, v-shaped hull and long keel easier to take a sight on than a
>modern wide-bodied yacht? Or is there no real difference. For starters I
>can walk away from the helm without my big girl straying from her
>course. Owning a classic design is fun but I hate to admit that I am
>sometimes envy those flashy racers a bit.
>




Rodney Myrvaagnes         NYC                       J36 Gjo/a

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