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Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design NEW!  13th Edition "Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design"
(ISBN# 1-894933-30-3)

Learn how to design and setup your own tunnel boat, power cat, or modified vee hull for all Recreation, Performance Family hulls, UIM & APBA racing or even RC models. (not just for racing applications!)

By well-known powerboat design author and race-driver, Jim Russell.

This new edition has lots of new information; now with over 200 pages, and well over 150 photographs!

Get the most from your tunnel hull or vee-bottom boat setup.

The new edition includes an added 'History of Modified Tunnel Hull (Mod VP) Design'; an added 'History & Design of Propellers'; and an added 'History & Design of 'Wing in Ground Effect' (WIG) concepts, and the Ten Steps To Performance Powerboat Design. All outlining how they have impacted high performance powerboat and tunnel boat designs.

These new segments are added to the original STBD book features: The developments of the tunnel and V bottoms are interestingly chronicled, with detailed explanations of hull design, function, potential and characteristics. This unique book also details ten design steps for analysis of hull performance and stability showing how the calculations are accurately performed, as well as providing detailed information about their relation to hull performance. The ten steps range from layout design and dimensions, calculating aerodynamic and hydrodynamic lift and drag, power calculations, and stability, acceleration, etc.

STBD book now includes:
 - History of Tunnel Boat Design
 - Design of Propellers
 - History of the Modified Vee hull
 - History of the WIG (Wing in Ground Effect)
 - 10 Steps to performance powerboat design
     (ISBN# 1-894933-30-3)

*** NOW RELEASED!  NEW 13th  edition of the 'Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design" book.    

Check out new Scream&Fly magazine review.

Lot's of new information - now over 200 pages & well over 150 photographs.  

Download the NEW STBD 13th Ed. TOC
(Table of Contents)



Check out the book review by Scream & Fly Magazine

Detailed design practices and formulae

Includes formulae and design  algorithms for calculating true high performance powerboat performance and stability characteristics.

Shows how to analyze all types of hulls, including appendages and even different sizes and styles of lower unit/outdrives.



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Foreword in STBD book is by Mark Rotharmel...markbio-s.jpg (73x53 -- 3960 bytes)
 - world renowned F1 Champion
 - Canadian Boating Federation Hall of Famer
 - host of Powerboat Television Show
 - founding chairman of the Performance Boat Club of Canada
 - columnist and feature contributor for Boats&Places Magazine

Read the "Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design" book's foreword, written by F1 champion and host of Powerboat Television, Mark Rotharmel

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