Re: inflatable boats
Jerry Durand <[email protected]>
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At 09:49 PM 5/5/2004, Pierce Nichols wrote: >On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 21:44, [email protected] wrote: > > > Good point, against your premise. I'm a boater and I know that an > > inflatable boat has a rigid, reinforced fiberglass V hull under it to > > take the dynamic stress. > > Wrong; that's called an RIB. I was talking about the old-style fully >inflatable Zodiacs. Zodiac and Avon still make them, you know. The >slamming loads on those relatively low-pressure tubes at speed are of >the same order as the Shuttle's max-Q. I don't know if they still do this, but some racing motorcycles had pressurized frames for additional strength/light weight. ---------- Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. 219 Oak Wood Way Los Gatos, California 95032-2523 USA tel: +1 408 356-3886 fax: +1 408 356-4659 web: www.interstellar.com