I was hoping that more people would answer on the thread... but your response by PM has been interesting and informative. Many of you have technical experience and education that would add a lot.
In my last post I wrote: Now imagine that you have placed a "V" in front of the barge... it's shape would then be much like a vee bottom jon boat. Would this help get the barge through the water with less energy expended.
What else did you see...?
What I could see as I "stood" there watching the water splitting on the prowl and flowing along the 'V" and then following the side smoothly and also in a wake wave that is sliding furher away from the boat.
I then "looked" at the back of the boat... there was a "hole" in the water behind the transom... was it causing drag? (Thinking about the hole, have you ever wondered where that water went... maybe it went out with the wake wave from the boat)
Well, I got to wondering how I could disrupt the water fast flowing past that hole in the water.... maybe make some of it spill into the hole behind the transom.
Many of you helped me solve the problem... you didn't show up for the lemonade.
I've got all of these lemons left over... maybe if I put some of them them a few inches apart on the edge... as far back as possible at the junction of the transom and sides of the boat... Maybe put some on the bottom at the junction of the edge at the transom too....
Maybe the turbulance they would cause would make some of the laminar flow flowing past the barge with a "V" hull to break up the drag behind the barge.
Well I was really slow figuring out that one... somebody did that years ago when I was still mentally stuck in a double ended canoe.
It has been fun comparing our truck campers to flat ended barges.
Now... what I'm looking for is intelligent responses... I've already been told that I'm a dummy.
Thanks for coming along...
Sleepy
