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Show 6791 Wimmer- D 4780 A In order to steer it, is one idea; if you tie it direct you have a direct stretch from your other boat. The next idea is , your load is on the scow, and it is entirely away from your power boat. You take the wheel, for instance, for any reason you had to work it hard, it will pull a certain amount of water out from under the power boat. If you have got sufficient space of the water,-- no load much in your power boat, it won't sink under those conditions so bad as if it was directly on the boat, that is, the weight on it, it is more bouyant, allows the water to run underneath, gives you a better power; the boat that has got the load on is so far away it has no effect on what the wheel draws out from under the other boat. Load it a foot, it has a foot all the times; isn't anything to take the water out from underneath it. If it was directly behind it, it will lower it. Q Take a short boat, with either a screw propeller or a paddle wheel, does the operation of the propeller or paddle wheel have a tendency to mak that end of the boat sink lower? A If it is loaded, sure, and a little if it is not loaded; owing to how much load in your boat, how much it makes it sink, also how near the ground you are; if you have |
