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Duckworks/Small Craft Advisor
- Design Contest #7
Class IV Everglades Challenger
DEADLINE - Midnight,
December 31, 2006
Our friends
over at "Small
Craft Advisor" have, agreed
to join us as a co-sponsor of our annual design
contest for another year, as last year's Puget
Sound Solo Cruiser contest was
quite successful. The competition
is a little stiffer this way, but we will
all gain from the greater number of contestants
and their ideas. The the details are shown
below—good luck! —Editor
the start of this year's
Everglades Challenge - photo by Bill Paxton
The Brief:
You are going
to design a class 4 boat for the Watertribe
Everglades Challenge. If you are somehow unfamiliar
with this race, click this link to the Watertribe
Everglades
Challenge and be sure to check
the navigation link on the left of that page
for links to the Schedule, Required Equiptment,
Charts, etc. There is an Article in the July/August
Small Craft Advisor about the race. You may
also want to review all previous articles on
the event in Duckworks"
In addtion, here are some designs that have
been presented as possible EC contenders. We
present these not to suggest a direction for
your efforts, but to merely show what others
have done.
One reason I
suggest all this research is that I am not going
to tell you about the race, it's rules, or it's
obstacles here. But be aware that there is a
lot to be learned relevant to how your boat
needs to perform.
What
is new this year:
This year we
depart from our wood-centric design parameters
and will allow any material or process to be
specified in an entry. This includes but is
not limited to: wood, fiberglass, metal, plastic,
paper mache, or any combination of these or
any other materials.
The Rules:
The contest
organizers are Duckworks Magazine and Small
Craft Advisor.
All correspondence
should be emailed to:
[email protected]
or addressed to:
Duckworks Magazine
608 Gammenthaler
Harper, TX 78631, USA
The competition
is open to anyone other than the following:
- Previous contest winners
- Professional Boat Designers
- Career path Boat Design students
who have completed 40% or more of their course
Entrants retain
copyright of their designs or drawings. However,
it is a condition of entry that the organizers
retain the right to display at public shows,
publish in Duckworks and Small Craft Advisor
(including its supplements and associated publications,
whether printed or electronic), in full or part,
any submitted material, written or electronic.
Requirements:
Only one entry
per person will be judged. Due to the number
of entries we expect, and the fact that our
judges are busy people who generously volunteer
their time, we limit the volume of data that
you may submit. Entries that do not adhere to
these specific limits will not be judged. Note
that these are maximum numbers and you do not
need to pad your entry to come up to these levels.
- Six drawings or sketches
including but not limited to:
- Plan view
- Front elevation
- Side elevation
- 20 line list of boat’s
statistics (measures, weights, etc.)
- 1000 word description of
boat
These submissions
may be made by e-mail or snail mail in electronic
or “hard copy” versions. (NOTE:
If your drawings are submitted on paper sheets
larger than 8-1/2" x 11", you will
need to send scans as well) Please do not submit
handwritten text. Please make sure electronic
submissions are hi-resolution (300 dpi at printing
size) for possible reproduction in print.
Judging will
be based on the following:
- The suitability of the materials
and construction methods chosen
- The fitness of your design
for this particular race
- Creative solutions and original
design ideas
Judging will
NOT be based on your mastery of any boat design
software. We like to see professional looking
drawings, but those will not get extra credit.
What I am trying to say is don't fail to enter
because your drawings are just pencil sketches
on note paper. That will do fine.
The
Judges: This
year's judges know plenty about small boats
and expedition-style racing.
John
Welsford - Prolific designer
John Welsford has logged
thousands of miles cruising small boats, and
his unique designs regularly compete in raids
and races around the globe. Presently he's
working with a client to build and prepare
one of his 21-foot designs for an around-the-world
voyage.
Don
Rypinski - In addition to helping
develop the Olympic Finn, Kite Dinghy and
Pacific Catamaran, small-boat designer Don
Rypinski once sailed a high-speed land yacht
across the Sahara desert (1800 miles) while
making a documentary for National Geographic.
Today Don owns Back Bay Boatworks, and builds
of a successful line of trailerable multi-hulls,
including the speedy Triton Trimaran.
Steve
Isaac - Who better to judge a
boat's suitability for the Everglades Challenge
than the man who started the event--Watertribe
founder Steve Isaac. In addition to competing
in his own grueling adventure race, Isaac
has gained real insight into what works and
what doesn't by personally surveying each
and every craft that has entered.
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