Strut Angle and Placement

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Bob and Jerry, how about we do this. Maybe create a list of popular hulls and their strut location, angle and height for a given HP and use, that's known to work well. Just starting points for others to compare.

Yeah, I was hoping this would turn out to be informative technical thing for everyone to learn.

Westernaero, Jerry and I really do understand your desire, but its just not that simple. If it was, somebody would have written the book by now.

Lets just take your idea for a list.
Take the list of v drive boat manufactures that Jerry posted, multiply number by ALL the models they all made, then multiply that number by 100, and you have a SHORT LIST of all the riggings ever used in the v drive world.
If we just used the Beisemeyer, you would have a volume of material to write.
Lets look at the varables for this one manufacture:
1. Lake/river, ski race, or circle race
2. little Beisemeyer, or standard
3. short deck or ski deck
4. 500, 800, or 1500 HP
5. 2 strake or 4

Probably other considerations like engine weight and hull layup weight, but you get the idea. And we won't cloud it with stuff like open or capsuled.
Then we could move to drag Canyons and Makos with and without runner bottoms.
Its end less.