For efficient hulls, look to high performance human-powered craft. For example, some of the same people behind human powered flight had a project for a human powered hydrofoil. I believe it was called the flying fish. I first read of it in Scientific American.
>From memory, it reached speeds of over 20 knots with a single person >pedalling. Even if that was an Olympic class athlete, that is no more than low >single digits for horsepower. I've recently started looking into this again for one of my next boat builds, not least because of my realisation that it could be a nearly perfect solution to high performance, long range, long duration electric watercraft. And with pedals in the mix, getting stranded without a charge is much less of an issue. -- Ron On June 29, 2019 9:18:49 p.m. CST, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >I am not sure if your hull was designed to plane but if you force 10 >mph you are wasting energy. All your pontoons are good for is around >7mph. I suspect you may double your range at lower speed. Lawrence >Rhodes >_______________________________________________ >UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA >(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190630/6ed5a064/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
