self righting hulls

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  • Chenige
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2011
    • 172

    #1

    self righting hulls

    Can someone explain how they work?
  • Rumdog
    Fast Electric Addict!
    • Mar 2009
    • 6453

    #2
    Most have a flood chamber offset to the port side of the hull. It is sealed off from the rest of the hull but runs from transom to the bow. A hole in the transom allows water to flow into the chamber whe the boat is up side down. the weight of the water in the hull will upright the hull, or at least get it far enough over for the prop to dig back in and relaunch the boat. When back on plane, the water flows back out of the chamber via the transom hole.

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    • Rumdog
      Fast Electric Addict!
      • Mar 2009
      • 6453

      #3
      Some smaller monos use a tallish dome shaped cowling which just makes it very tippy when uprighted. seems to work well also.

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      • m4a1usr
        Fast Electric Addict
        • Nov 2009
        • 2038

        #4
        Originally posted by Chenige
        Can someone explain how they work?
        Here you go. All you need to know. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...=flood+chamber

        John
        Change is the one Constant

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