Evolution and the Search for Perfection in Design
Post #15 There's a story that the design of the Polynesian outrigger canoes evolved by a process of attrition. The canoes that didn't...
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Tony Grainger
- May 15, 2022
- 3 min
Newick's Maxim as a Powerful Tool for Multihull Design
Post #14 Multihull designer Dick Newick is renown for his maxim; low cost, accommodation, performance. Choose any two. You can't have all...
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Tony Grainger
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Understanding Technology's Behavior
Post #11 All design work is problem solving. If there's no problem to solve, no specific vision to be arrived at, there is no point to...
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Tony Grainger
- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
Boats and Banana Trees as Energy Systems
Post #10 As our technologies advance at an ever faster pace the distinction between human made technologies and natural "technologies" is...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 28, 2022
- 1 min
On solving Problems with Complexity
Post #09 We used to mount our dagger boards in foil shaped cases with the board bearing against the inside of the case. This resulted in...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 22, 2022
- 2 min
Catamaran Layouts. Looking at the big Picture
Post #08 The image below compares the flow and spacial organization for a cat with a forward cockpit and makes a direct comparison with a...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 19, 2022
- 1 min
Planning Layouts - a Structured Approach
Post #07 This is one of those things that seem pretty obvious when you see it explained, but then when you begin to use it you start to...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
Form and Context at the Foundation of Good Design
Post #06 THE CONCEPT OF FORM AND CONTEXT How do we deal with these issues of mismatch and imbalance in the fundamental process of...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
Cutting the Cake
Post #05 How to apportion the deck space and cabin space available to make the most effective use of the floor area available? There are...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min
Three Symptoms of Mismatch
Post #04 Three Symptoms of Mismatch In the previous post I mentioned there are three possibilities or outcomes when there is a mismatch...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
A Question of Balance
POST #03 A QUESTION OF BALANCE With the first two posts down by way of introduction I can start to get into the nuts and bolts of what is...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
A Deep and Meaningful Relationship
Post #02 I used to think of the relationship between the hulls and the platform as one of three parameters we work through in the design...
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Tony Grainger
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
The Test of the Machine
POST #01 THE TEST OF THE MACHINE I've written my first blog post to include one of the more notable quotes (and there are many) from...
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