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Re: Other: What is "depth to sheer"
By:Glen Smith
Date: 3/16/2008, 8:33 pm
In Response To: Other: What is "depth to sheer" (Erin Hurst)

My interpretation of "depth to sheer" is the distance from the keel-line to the sheer-line usually measured at midship unless otherwise specified. Some designers call it "center depth".

Glen in Baie-St-Paul.

Messages In This Thread

Other: What is "depth to sheer"
Erin Hurst -- 3/16/2008, 8:04 pm
Re: Other: What is "depth to sheer"
Glen Smith -- 3/16/2008, 8:33 pm
Re: Other: What is "depth to sheer"
Erin Hurst -- 3/16/2008, 9:06 pm
Re: Other: What is "depth to sheer"
Glen Smith -- 3/16/2008, 9:23 pm
I didn't realize . . .
Mike Scarborough -- 3/17/2008, 10:26 am
Re: I didn't realize . . .
Glen Smith -- 3/17/2008, 11:15 am
Re: Other: What is "depth to sheer"
Mike Scarborough -- 3/17/2008, 9:01 am