Thread: Bulbous bow.
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Old 10-30-2006, 02:53 PM   #20
Loren Schweizer
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Originally Posted by K1W1
Hi,

the heavy duty Ice Breakers rely on displacement tonnage and ****ty machinery balance and alignment to get where trhey are going.

Gosh, maybe he meant to say 'shifty'

Francois, in the realm of expedition/trawler vessels under 100 feet or so, the bulb has a greater job in reducing pitching in a head sea rather than any gains in hull efficiency.
Then, there are those troglodytes who insist that the absence of a bulb, especially on a larger boat, denotes a severe lack of manliness.
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