Quidnon
“A houseboat that sails”
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Friday, October 9, 2015
Cockpit design: a picture plus a few thousand words
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As I mentioned before, nothing focuses the mind on cockpit design like spending 150 hours in the cockpit of a sailboat more or less in one c...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Improvements
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Over the past month I have spent some 150 hours sailing—moving south for the winter. This has given me plenty of time to rethink some elemen...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
The final sketch
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A lot of little details got tweaked in the process of presenting the various aspects of this design and taking in all the suggestions that ...
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Construction plan
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This will be the last post in this series. The design of QUIDNON is far enough along to start entering actual engineering drawings into C...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Electrical system
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The primary purpose of QUIDNON is to serve as a floating residence. As such, it has to provide all the usual services that normally involve ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Rudder Linkage Rethink
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Jon from Virginia asked a really good question: What happens if one of the rudders gets hit sideways by something or other? Which part of th...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Steering linkage
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Because there are two rudders, and because they are angled out, to be maximally effective when the boat is heeled over, the steering lin...
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