dieselhead
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i am studying a degree in yacht manufacturing and surveying and am about to start my dissertation, does anyone have some useful ideas for a subject??
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Dissertation help!
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Aja
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How about "Bavarian Yacht Manufacturing in the 22nd Century" or "Surveying - Yachts"?
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Twister_Ken
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Or lack of imagination in yacht manufacturing students?
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zefender
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Or perhaps why the Jeanneau Rush 30 doesn't? 
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Aja
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Sometimes its just plain pig-headed. Sometimes its just me.
Wasn't having a dig at Bavarias... it was only part tongue in cheek. Look in all the mags this year. What factory have they all visited?
Put it this way, the boaty journalist must be fluent in German by now.
Donald
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Wasn't having a dig at Bavarias... it was only part tongue in cheek. Look in all the mags this year. What factory have they all visited?
Put it this way, the boaty journalist must be fluent in German by now.
Donald
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tcm
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Laminar flow analysis over wide-bodied racing yacht hulls.
Make sure you include lots of references to Reynolds numbers, Froude numbers, and include long equations with plenty of greek characters innem that look dead impressive. The lecturers will give you an A cos they will never understand it cos all a bit deep shit mathematics with double differentions whose values are always negligle.
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Make sure you include lots of references to Reynolds numbers, Froude numbers, and include long equations with plenty of greek characters innem that look dead impressive. The lecturers will give you an A cos they will never understand it cos all a bit deep shit mathematics with double differentions whose values are always negligle.
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dieselhead
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thanks tcm but unfortunately we already cover that in our course and i dont want to repeat it to a deeper level!! thanks though!
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dieselhead
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thanks tcm but unfortunately we already cover that in our course and i dont want to repeat it to a deeper level!! thanks though!
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jimi
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One of the principal concerns of a sailor is waste, disposal and effects on the environment. A treatise on the stability characteristics of yachts with and without a holding tank together with the Stix effect of a half full aged tank would be intriguing. I'm sure there are a lot of sailors out there who would be deeply interested once they realise they have one.
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Sybarite
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Economies of scale : compatibility with quality control in a mass production environment ?
John
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How about environmental effects upon the curing of resins?
i.e. Temperature/Moisture
Or alternatively the effects of thickness and how the cooling of the outside layers first pre-tensions the inner filaments.
Ignore what you want to do. It depends upon where you can get help and data. Start contacting the manufacturers and see what interests them. Start by picking manufacturers locally to you.
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i.e. Temperature/Moisture
Or alternatively the effects of thickness and how the cooling of the outside layers first pre-tensions the inner filaments.
Ignore what you want to do. It depends upon where you can get help and data. Start contacting the manufacturers and see what interests them. Start by picking manufacturers locally to you.
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tcm
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"Did you say my boat is shit?" - A study of how all boat owners believe their boat is utterly fab.
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dieselhead
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ok you are all getting my mind working, i live in hamble so getting in contact with companies on the south coast wont be a problem. thanks again all!!
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zefender
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Re: Eine kleine nachtmusik
Naturlich, Deutsche Boote sind sehr gemutlich ;-)
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Naturlich, Deutsche Boote sind sehr gemutlich ;-)
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Aja
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"Did you say my boat is shit?"
Dont think so.
Just find that most of the time when we're at the back of the fleet, everyone else is to windward, pointing higher and going faster.
Still looks lovely, though. 'Specially to me.
Your'e right. Maybe the boat is shit.
Donald
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Dont think so.
Just find that most of the time when we're at the back of the fleet, everyone else is to windward, pointing higher and going faster.
Still looks lovely, though. 'Specially to me.
Your'e right. Maybe the boat is shit.
Donald
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Twister_Ken
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Environmental effects of yacht manufacture.
Are resin fumes greenhouse gases? Quantify.
Use of aliminium in spars and other structures - energy hungry mfg process. Quantify
Tropical hardwoods used in fitting out below, teak decks etc. Quantify, vs sustainable growth
Petrochemicals used in sail manufacture.
Disposal of old yachts
Health problems in w'force
Etc.
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Are resin fumes greenhouse gases? Quantify.
Use of aliminium in spars and other structures - energy hungry mfg process. Quantify
Tropical hardwoods used in fitting out below, teak decks etc. Quantify, vs sustainable growth
Petrochemicals used in sail manufacture.
Disposal of old yachts
Health problems in w'force
Etc.
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claymore
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Yes - if I might develop this strand a little - the space for a holding tank is limited, causing, one must assume, in normal circumstances, the need for fairly frequent pumping out. this must have a fairly negative impact for the cruising sailor having to interrupt cruises to offload the contents of the tank.
Claever use of a mascerator and compacting unit ought to mean a reduction in the frequency of emptying operations and ought at the same time to give the cruising sailor the added advantage of increased stability through greater compacted mass. One would of course need to adjust figures for canal passages as boats as we all know float 4" higher in canals - or is that 4" lower?
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Claever use of a mascerator and compacting unit ought to mean a reduction in the frequency of emptying operations and ought at the same time to give the cruising sailor the added advantage of increased stability through greater compacted mass. One would of course need to adjust figures for canal passages as boats as we all know float 4" higher in canals - or is that 4" lower?
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Twister_Ken
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canal draught
Higher, lower? Will depend upon the salinity of the water and the weight of the boat. On the French canals boats definitely float lower, though this is usually attributable to the weight of extra stores acquired when passing vineyards.
As a thought on treatment of holding tank wastes, I suspect that it would make good fertiliser, which could be sold to farmers one passes on the canals, or at least swapped for the odd cauliflower. Perhaps that why cauliflower tastes like manure (please note use of polite synonym).
Just to return to the subject of dissertation (which can generally be cured by penicillin), what we really need is a boat with a fold flat keel for combined canal/sea work. At sea it's very reassuring to have six feet of lead dangling down. But on a canal, it becomes a brake/plough. Wouldn't it be nice, Mr Student, to devise a system* that allowed the keel to swivel 90 degrees and then fold up flat against the bottom of the boat?
Gofrit.
*patent applied for
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Higher, lower? Will depend upon the salinity of the water and the weight of the boat. On the French canals boats definitely float lower, though this is usually attributable to the weight of extra stores acquired when passing vineyards.
As a thought on treatment of holding tank wastes, I suspect that it would make good fertiliser, which could be sold to farmers one passes on the canals, or at least swapped for the odd cauliflower. Perhaps that why cauliflower tastes like manure (please note use of polite synonym).
Just to return to the subject of dissertation (which can generally be cured by penicillin), what we really need is a boat with a fold flat keel for combined canal/sea work. At sea it's very reassuring to have six feet of lead dangling down. But on a canal, it becomes a brake/plough. Wouldn't it be nice, Mr Student, to devise a system* that allowed the keel to swivel 90 degrees and then fold up flat against the bottom of the boat?
Gofrit.
*patent applied for
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Sybarite
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Re: canal draught
Didn't some recent Jongerts have this idea? The keel was in four pieces split first fore and aft; each half then folded outwards and upwards in the middle to significantly reduce draft. Looking fore & aft again when it was half raised you would see a diamond shape.
John
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Didn't some recent Jongerts have this idea? The keel was in four pieces split first fore and aft; each half then folded outwards and upwards in the middle to significantly reduce draft. Looking fore & aft again when it was half raised you would see a diamond shape.
John
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Ohdrat
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Re: use of a mascerator and compacting unit
mmm but first you have know that you have one..
On a constructive note.. why not some in depth study into yachty tardis systems.. this would be of huge benefit to those with spacially challenged cabins/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
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mmm but first you have know that you have one..
On a constructive note.. why not some in depth study into yachty tardis systems.. this would be of huge benefit to those with spacially challenged cabins/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
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