Sunday, 28 February 2016

Buttocks - not that kind!

Buttocks

Buttocks are also fairing lines and show the flow of water around the hull. Usually two buttock lines are used and are shown only on the profile as they will be straight lines in plan. They are drawn first on the sections, the blue lines,


and then the intersections transferred to the profile and then joined by curves.


You can see that we have the same hump at station 1 as we had in the diagonal. The flow aft appears good, perhaps we should have a third buttock line to better define that flow.


That third buttock shows a definite problem aft of station 5. This where the fiddly bits come in, adjusting all the lines so that they are fair to one another

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