Trends that won't last?

[newhaul]

just to clarify for everyone all boats have and have always had chines. what you are referring to is a hard chine and they have been around for a long time a chine is the point at which the bottom and sides of any vessel meet traditional rounded hull shapes have soft chines.

[sidmon]

Quite so newhaul...insert "hard" where obviously appropriate.

But I'm sure you get the point

[sidmon]

"They use chines not because a rating or rules make them more convenient on the paper calculations, but because the hulls work better on the water with chines."

There will come a day when the current "chiseled" designs will be deemed obsolete...

You can plan on it Paulo

[PCP]

No doubt about that

But for now, (hard) chines are just arriving to the cruising boats, after having proved its efficiency on racing boats.

Regards

Paulo

[sidmon]

Again, for the kinds of hulls that are in fashion today, that may be so.

But that fashion WILL change.

Personally, I find the boats of today downright ugly.

And, I just grow a bit weary of the notion that once something new comes along, all the older stuff is "bad".

(Meanwhile, I'm off to my retro floating toy...that is equipped with a CQR)