stepped hulls?
 

curiosity hit again this morning as I was trying to stay away from OSO while at work..............FAT CHANCE........

who invented stepped hulls? I heard informally it was Reggie. Correct? anyone know the history ?

I think you may have to go back a little farther. Like the 1920s.

I think the steps were invented waaaaay before Reggie's time. Ask T2X. He will know.

Nope. They go back to the 20's, maybe a little earlier. They were first used on some float planes. To answer your next question, these planes also had notched transoms on the floats.

interesting, I was wondering who had the patent since I see them in just about all manufacturers

1890'S.

I've searched.... the earliest patent on stepped hulls I could find goes back to the twenties.... check www.uspto.gov... you can search patents online and see prior artwork.. this site only takes you back to 1976.... but the prior artwork goes waaaaay back..

If I remember what I read properly, it was Christopher Columbus Smith. You may remember his company, Chris Craft.

Story goes he was sitting around a pond watching bugs skim across the water and he came up with the idea.

Ask Bulldog... he will confirm....the first stepped hull was made by a caveman named Og.... :eureka:

Then OG cut off the limbs of the branch he was floating on and named his boat "LOG".... short for "later...OG"..:p

I heard even the Vikings had stepped hulls...... :D

NOAH'S ARK HAD ALOT OF TWINS:D :D

Psssst - don't tell anyone, but the word on the street is that Reggie is the guy that actually designed the Apache 41 hull. Remember, if anyone asks, you didn't hear that from me...

:D :D

Not sure I think the Mayflower had them, Check with Sy goldberg:D

I don`t know about ''stepped'' hulls but they did put a finnish on their hulls that would generate bubbles to reduce the hydrostatic drag.

MAYFLOWER AND STEPS !
 

I agree with BAJABOB about the MAYFLOWER having steps and I would also like to point out the MAYFLOWER was much faster than a BAJA 38 SPECIAL with a much lower fuel cost and far less maintainence.:D :D :D

It's OLD technology...

this is what I get for posting on OSO while at work:crazy: