How many dimensions does a boat have?

[jimi]

1 length

 

[sarabande]

are we talking quantum sailing, here ?

 

[jimi]

no that's ny navigational technique .. start your own friggin thread if you want to discuss that and don't wreck my perfectly sensible one.

2 Draught

 

[snowleopard]

3. Beam

 

[snowleopard]

but no 4th dimension as time has no meaning when you're chilling out on a boat. (unless of course you're trying to get home before the tide turns.

 

[snowleopard]

OK, that's answered that one. Next question - how many degrees of freedom?

 

[john_morris_uk]

I asked my boat and she said she's got feelings - so you'd better count emotion as a dimension as well...

 

[jimi]

4 air draught

 

[john_morris_uk]

Oh - you want sensible suggestions.

5. freeboard - as in height of.

 

[sarabande]

3 beam
4 length overall
5 length between perpendiculars
5 Beam max
6 load waterline length
7 freeboard
8 draught
9 air draught
10 keel depth
11 topside overhang
12 stern overhang
13 bow overhang
14 keel chord
15 rudder depth
16 rudder chord
17 mainsail hoist
18 foretriangle base
19 forestay length

or are we talking serious yacht racing ?

 

[jimi]

6 Sail area

 

[kingfisher]

1 length

LOA or LWL?

 

[Ubergeekian]

1 length

overall, over spars, over deck or waterline?

 

[snowleopard]

394. Distance between hulls.

 

[jimi]

393 Number of hulls

 

[jamesjermain]

395. draught, board(s)/plates(s) up/down
396. metacentric shelf
397. centre of lateral resistance
398. centre of gravity
399. cenre of buoyancy
400. GZ

Sorry, had to get to 400 - it's a coverline-writer thing (400 best yacht dimensions...)

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Sorry James, can't help but ruin it...

401. Mast rake

 

[fireball]

402 Liquid storage capacity
402.1 Water
402.2 Diesel
402.3 Gas
402.4 Human consumable liquid

 

[aquaplane]

405 page unavailable Number of Gordons shaped holes in the drinks locker. Important one that.

 

[jimi]

407 .. number of places to misplace ones spectacles in ..