On what comes to seaworthiness, any naval architect who calls the ruff as "roof", deck as "floor", galley as "kitchen", cabin as "bed room", mess as "main salon", head as "bathroom" and grand cabin as "Owner's room" and puts cockpit to the bridge, certainly isn't worth of his salt.
My sailor's heart hurts. This isn't a yacht, that is a suicide craft for any seas stronger than Force 4.
Quite aside from wondering which is the bow and which is the stern, I'd have to say that anyone seeing this whatisit moored at their local marina could be forgiven for concluding the Predators were back in town.
My question is, would it (agreed, Ironmistress) float? I think the designer was looking at Hunter's transomless hulls for "inspiration". But even if this is going to be powered by inboard motors that are somehow hidden in the stern^Wback, there's a lot of weight forward. Additional "inspiration" might have come from fishing boats that have heavy hulls and engines, and a dodger-sheltered area---and plenty of flotation---forward. I think this thing would either pitch nose-down or pitch nose-down and make a nice reef for diving on, depending on whether any of the screen doors was left open, on launch.
Agreed. There is a reason why all yachts look alike, and the reason is seaworthiness. I survived last summer twice a Force 8 gale at Baltic (where the waves are short, nasty and choppy), and I wouldn't dare to take that craft off the Archipelago, let alone high seas.
That thingy simply isn't safe. It has not been designed as seaworthiness and safety on mind. Our yacht is one of the best high seas designs ever drawn in Finland, and I was perfectly confident we would survive alive.
My dreamboat isn't one where I can enjoy being bikini-clad and sipping an exotic drink on a highball glass at marina. My dreamboat is one with which I can circumnavigate the world safely in any weather.
I like it! You've got to look beyond the untypically boat-shaped mess when it comes to basic seagoing tasks, but dwell longingly on the celebutard drowning potential instead...
"My dreamboat is one with which I can circumnavigate the world safely in any weather."
Precisely. Of course, being the lazy landlubber I am, my choice would be an Iowa-class battleship with a pair of Westinghouse CVAN-sized reactors replacing the Babcock & Wilcox boilers.
Not only comfortable, but a highly effective argument against Bartholomew Roberts wannabees.
eon: Right idea, but I'd prefer a Vanguard-class submarine with part of the missile deck replaced with a Captain Nemo-style cabin complete with giant view ports and pipe organ.
Cool, but as an old "Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea" fan I always remember an old "Humor in Uniform" from the Reader's Digest;
A Navy pilot trainee wrote in that on the second week of his basic class, there was a new guy sitting next to him, who wore the dolphins of the Submarine Service. When he asked him why he, a "bubblehead", was in pilot training, the guy responded, "It occurred to me that while what goes Up must come Down, what goes Down does not necessarily always come Up."
Given the choice between a pressure hull and anything up to 36 inches of Grade B armor plate, I'll take the latter. (I'm chicken.)
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It would be a nice to see if that thingy can do it around the Cape Horn.
Or survive autumnal storms at Baltic.
I refuse to call that contraption as "she". That whatchamacallit is clearly an "it".
On what comes to seaworthiness, any naval architect who calls the ruff as "roof", deck as "floor", galley as "kitchen", cabin as "bed room", mess as "main salon", head as "bathroom" and grand cabin as "Owner's room" and puts cockpit to the bridge, certainly isn't worth of his salt.
My sailor's heart hurts. This isn't a yacht, that is a suicide craft for any seas stronger than Force 4.
Quite aside from wondering which is the bow and which is the stern, I'd have to say that anyone seeing this whatisit moored at their local marina could be forgiven for concluding the Predators were back in town.
cheers
eon
My question is, would it (agreed, Ironmistress) float? I think the designer was looking at Hunter's transomless hulls for "inspiration". But even if this is going to be powered by inboard motors that are somehow hidden in the stern^Wback, there's a lot of weight forward. Additional "inspiration" might have come from fishing boats that have heavy hulls and engines, and a dodger-sheltered area---and plenty of flotation---forward. I think this thing would either pitch nose-down or pitch nose-down and make a nice reef for diving on, depending on whether any of the screen doors was left open, on launch.
Agreed. There is a reason why all yachts look alike, and the reason is seaworthiness. I survived last summer twice a Force 8 gale at Baltic (where the waves are short, nasty and choppy), and I wouldn't dare to take that craft off the Archipelago, let alone high seas.
That thingy simply isn't safe. It has not been designed as seaworthiness and safety on mind. Our yacht is one of the best high seas designs ever drawn in Finland, and I was perfectly confident we would survive alive.
My dreamboat isn't one where I can enjoy being bikini-clad and sipping an exotic drink on a highball glass at marina. My dreamboat is one with which I can circumnavigate the world safely in any weather.
I like it! You've got to look beyond the untypically boat-shaped mess when it comes to basic seagoing tasks, but dwell longingly on the celebutard drowning potential instead...
"My dreamboat is one with which I can circumnavigate the world safely in any weather."
Precisely. Of course, being the lazy landlubber I am, my choice would be an Iowa-class battleship with a pair of Westinghouse CVAN-sized reactors replacing the Babcock & Wilcox boilers.
Not only comfortable, but a highly effective argument against Bartholomew Roberts wannabees.
cheers
eon
eon: Right idea, but I'd prefer a Vanguard-class submarine with part of the missile deck replaced with a Captain Nemo-style cabin complete with giant view ports and pipe organ.
David;
Cool, but as an old "Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea" fan I always remember an old "Humor in Uniform" from the Reader's Digest;
A Navy pilot trainee wrote in that on the second week of his basic class, there was a new guy sitting next to him, who wore the dolphins of the Submarine Service. When he asked him why he, a "bubblehead", was in pilot training, the guy responded, "It occurred to me that while what goes Up must come Down, what goes Down does not necessarily always come Up."
Given the choice between a pressure hull and anything up to 36 inches of Grade B armor plate, I'll take the latter. (I'm chicken.)
;-)
cheers
eon
According to the doctrine of the Finnish Navy, there are just two kinds of ships:
Minelayers and targets.
Ironmistress;
And the best thing about minelaying is, you don't have to hang around and make yourself a target to smack 'em.
They can't hit you if you're nowhere to be found. ("Band on the Run".)
cheers
eon
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