WAVERIDER wrote:
I guess the ideal, if hard to make would be a "louvre" arrangement with slats angled up 45 degrees, water cant spray upwards yet if submerged it would offer minimal resistance to rise through the water. Something like that would probably have to be moulded whole rather than made up, so a DIY version would be difficult to make
The final version will be made in g/f resin or carbon but to develop and to try this out will take time and be made in at least three or four steps.
1. Very simple prototyoe wood or aluminium. Temporary strapped on to the bow.
2. After messuring and designing the furling jib/spinnaker I will make a base mount on the bow that will also serve as a fixing point for the wavedeflector.
3. Then i wilm make a mould of the entire bow so I can do resin casts and try different designs to ge the right hydrdynamic effect.
4. After finishing the design it will be laserscanned and then new moulds fabricated for vacum molding it with g/f or carbon.
So its a slow process running at least in about 2 years time total.
Next fall I hope I have some data and results from test with the first prototypes. Maybe the wave deflector will be very ineffective on the larger heavier TI (that is accually my biggest concern). But it shure seems to work on the AI.
Please notice that this is and will continue as a hobby project. I am not a professional boat designer so I set my standards at a hobby level. Usually my work is fine, sometimes a big fail and occasionally a real sucess.
If the results and design of the wavedeflector would work really well I will of course make it avaliable for purchase but this is not my motive to do this and we are still a long way from any of this.
Once I get this project going I will keep you all updated with the progress (or lack of it).
/Gustav