On Sep 14, 3:15 pm, "Roger Long" wrote:
Good answer.

My experience with ports in the hull is lying in my bunk on large steel sail
training vessels looking first up at the water surface from below and then
at the moon and sea surface. Beautiful.

I hear you, I love a nice view. My only experience with porthole's in
the hull are also way..way above the water line and dock side.

Those ports didn't leak or seem to cause any other problems aside from a bit
of condensation and the dogs digging you in the back if you weren't careful.
I suppose it would be a lot to expect though for a low budget operation like
this to have proper port frames and deadlights. You probably would be
looking at a grand each or more for the kind of units that made them
workable on the ships I'm used to.

http://sports.webshots.com/photo/218...63212926oKkIeY

Close, I just did a bunch of replacing europe style windows with
portholes.

http://sports.webshots.com/photo/284...63212926JCMatQ

Drag wouldn't be a significant issue.

Yeah not much drag, but sailing around the world might add a mo. or
more... and a log could take out multiple ports if plastic as it
skirted the hull.

Joe

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Roger Long