Originally Posted by scooby_simon
Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
as a fixed volume is pushed deeper in the water, does its bouyancy increase?


No it decreases as the "volume" is reduced (a little bit in the case of a cat hull as it does not squash much at a few feet of depth). So no.

My view is that the drednought bows do not reduce pitching in the way most understand; they still dive as much as a vertical bowed boat would (with the same below water profile) but because the foredeck is a /\ shape the water is shedd more quickly and so there is less tripping happening.


Waterplane Inertia

Hang on now! Most of the volume is not below the waterline under normal sailing conditions. The dreadnought bows moves more of the volume to the waterline and thus the bow does not have to pitch as much to put the volume into action. The link is Steve Clark's comments on Oracle's bows.

In conjuction, moving the front beam a little farther back accentuates the waterplane inertia in front of the mast (lever) and further improves the downwind bouyancy of these hulls.


Kris Hathaway