Quidnon

“A houseboat that sails”

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Monday, January 25, 2016

QUIDNON Assembly: Stuff and Glue

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When building a boat, no matter what technique is used, most of the time goes into making the parts. Much of the quality of the resulting hu...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Sailing through a Meltwater Pulse

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It's January, and the Greenland ice sheet is melting. There was recently a winter hurricane in the North Atlantic, and another in the ...
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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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