koonaone
1 mW
Hello again you wonderful creative folks.
(sorry for any confusion, i moved this here from an ...ancient thread)
I have a cerebral problem, a problem of imaginng. Please bear with me, i'll try to explain it.
I have a flatbottom canoe, 17 ft, nothing like a keel. I figure on mounting a motor on the top of a ~ 1/2 in or 1 in length of steel pipe, curved in a 1/4 circle. The motor at the top drives a flexible shaft through the oil filled pipe. OK, here my imaginations of reality falter on me.
SO, visualise the quarter circle with a couple feet straight at the top. Propellor screwing horizontaly at the bottom. OK, aircraft cable cutting across the circle for support on one plane. NOW, i slide a triangular plastic "pillow case" down that inverted V and tie snug at bottom.......
I figure as soon as I have leeway, well get beyond leeway, the Skeg (for lack of better word) will do two things.
1) It will tend to keep that prop pointed AWAY from the direction the boat is going. If ya visualise the 1/4 circle without that it would want to wander and wonk.
2) With way on, the "skeg" will tend to act like a keel and at least help to counter sidewinds. I've got oars on that sucker now, but so help me, with a paddle, i have worn my self down to a sorry nubbin trying to beat the wind out on that lake.
I have vague worries of the plastic "fluttering" I can only guess, is that bad? And how about drag? Would I be screwing up all my meticulous engineering? Most efficient quarter circle and all? Maybe I should go with light plywood, or chloroplast, stiffer. A stretched pillow case would be easier to put on and off,
What do you guys think? Oh, it's important to realise I only want to use the electric for long hauls in deep water. I want to be able to pull my "outboard" out, stow it, switch to oars, much more maneuverable. Truth is, if TSHTF out there the oars would keep me alive, dunno about the electric. so a quick switchover capability would be good. I might be better off with a "longtail" configuration. But darn, I need lateral stability, a keel.
You folks are my only real hope on this, hope you can help me.
. . . . . . . . yours
(___)
{o,o}
/)__)
-"-"----------- douglas
(sorry for any confusion, i moved this here from an ...ancient thread)
I have a cerebral problem, a problem of imaginng. Please bear with me, i'll try to explain it.
I have a flatbottom canoe, 17 ft, nothing like a keel. I figure on mounting a motor on the top of a ~ 1/2 in or 1 in length of steel pipe, curved in a 1/4 circle. The motor at the top drives a flexible shaft through the oil filled pipe. OK, here my imaginations of reality falter on me.
SO, visualise the quarter circle with a couple feet straight at the top. Propellor screwing horizontaly at the bottom. OK, aircraft cable cutting across the circle for support on one plane. NOW, i slide a triangular plastic "pillow case" down that inverted V and tie snug at bottom.......
I figure as soon as I have leeway, well get beyond leeway, the Skeg (for lack of better word) will do two things.
1) It will tend to keep that prop pointed AWAY from the direction the boat is going. If ya visualise the 1/4 circle without that it would want to wander and wonk.
2) With way on, the "skeg" will tend to act like a keel and at least help to counter sidewinds. I've got oars on that sucker now, but so help me, with a paddle, i have worn my self down to a sorry nubbin trying to beat the wind out on that lake.
I have vague worries of the plastic "fluttering" I can only guess, is that bad? And how about drag? Would I be screwing up all my meticulous engineering? Most efficient quarter circle and all? Maybe I should go with light plywood, or chloroplast, stiffer. A stretched pillow case would be easier to put on and off,
What do you guys think? Oh, it's important to realise I only want to use the electric for long hauls in deep water. I want to be able to pull my "outboard" out, stow it, switch to oars, much more maneuverable. Truth is, if TSHTF out there the oars would keep me alive, dunno about the electric. so a quick switchover capability would be good. I might be better off with a "longtail" configuration. But darn, I need lateral stability, a keel.
You folks are my only real hope on this, hope you can help me.
. . . . . . . . yours
(___)
{o,o}
/)__)
-"-"----------- douglas