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Cross Sections

Long Sections

Planking arrangement

Printing a hull. The light weight models used for testing had no internal structure.

Model Testing

Detail of balance. 20 readings were taken by photographing the balance at 5 second intervals.

The results were not precise but an average reading showed the selected hull shape

to be the one of the best out of the eight shapes tested

Detail of model under test. The brown filler was added to ballast it to weight.