Rudder Form in Inland and Oceangoing Dutch Merchantmen of the 17th Century
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https://doi.org/10.25071/2561-5467.1341Keywords:
Netherlands, shipbuilding, naval architecture, rudders, mathematical analysisAbstract
The Dutch flourished in international and internal maritime trade during the 17th century. The typical oceangoing ship was the fluyt, and the typical inland ship was the wijdschip. The rudders of historical and archaeological examples of these ships were analyzed and found to be strikingly different. Wijdschips had greater ratios of rudder area to both lateral waterplane area and approximate displacement than fluyts, but had lower draft:rudder breadth ratios. These design features may have been used to account for the shallower draft, larger breadth, and shallow water environment of wijdschips and a possibly greater reliance on sails to steer fluyts.
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