Narrow Boats Do Not Mean Tender Boats

摘要

One of the common misconceptions about slender hulls is that they are necessarily tender and deep rollers.In fact,this was a difficulty experienced aboard the early,slender offshore powerboats of die 1907 Bermuda Race.It absolutely does not have to be that way,and shouldn't be if the designer knows his or her business. The belief that narrow boats are rollers is so pervasive that the builder of one of the boats we've used for an example here simply couldn't imagine that that vessel would be workable.He was astonished when the boat not only floated exactly on its lines,but was moderately stiff to boot.